Eric the Red

Eric the Red Feb 2018

Wake
Coffee
Make sure she’s asleep
Download apps
Toilet
Swipe left
Swipe right
Pay a bill
Go to work
Email
Make eyes with that new girl
Check apps
Match
‘Nice to meet you...’
Send msg to that one 500 miles away
Lunch
‘I work long hours so I’m just looking for a physical thing right now’
Text Mrs.
‘I love you too...I’ll get wine on way home.’
Check msgs
‘I’d like that...’
Send selfie to new stranger
Keep that long distance one dangling
‘Missing you...’
Txt missus
‘On my way...’
‘Hurry...dinner almost ready.’
‘HAHA...LOVE YOU LOVE’
kiss
Check app
Quick swipe right
Match
‘Nice to meet you...’
Wine
Delete apps
Delete pics
Key turns to front door
She runs over wraps arms around
kiss
‘I’ve missed you today...’
‘You have no idea how much I’ve missed you today.’
Thinks to himself if he put that one number on block or
Do Not Disturb

Eric the Red Feb 2018

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Your love was like freezing rain upon my branches...they’ll break soon under the weight of it...never to grow back...take me as I am...put me in your ground...blind me...for I just need to hear your heartbeat...let it sing me to sleep...invade my dreams there

Eric the Red Feb 2018

Lucky

‘You’re lucky...’
I told her
‘Why am I lucky?’
She asked

‘You’re lucky the stars are far out of reach...because if they weren’t, I’d bring one out of the nightsky
everynight...just for you...’

Eric the Red Feb 2018

Hello & Goodbye

There’ll be a moment
Maybe mid 30s
Maybe mid 40s
Maybe your whole life
Where you stop
Gaining things
Money
Knowledge
Friendships
Loves
And you start
Losing them
Money in your accounts
Knowledge lost on deadend jobs
Friendships that you outgrew
&
Loves

The burial of parents
The ‘We’ll always know each other
Become just another thing
You lose
The
Hello
&
Goodbye

Eric the Red Feb 2018

Anup Prakash

This guy is stealing your poems and putting them on PoemHunter.com as his own

Eric the Red Feb 2018

A Strong One

We all need a Strong One
In our lives
Someone that sees though our
BS

Not to expose our weakness
Or make us feel bad

But a Strong One
Who can walk away from us
If our soul is too much for them

A Strong One
Won’t beg for you to stay
A Strong One
Will be there if you love
There is no One Way

The only way you know
If you have a Strong One
Is if you’re still pursuing
Hoping they’ll see your words

But they won’t
They’re Strong enough
Without them

Eric the Red Feb 2018

The Pact

I told her we could move in
Together
On one condition

‘Don’t ever tell me to cut
‘Down on my drinking
‘And I won’t tell you
‘To stop being a *****

She looked at me puzzled
Enraged

‘But I’m not a *****
She said

‘Good...’
Said I
‘I’m not a drunk either...’