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Eric the Red Feb 2018
I can’t wait to read the book
Of my life

I’m going skip all the
Chapters

Until I get to the part
Where I get to meet you
&
Read it
Over
&
Over
........
Eric the Red Feb 2018
I know it’s late..:
I m sorry I woke you.. . ..
I just wanted to tell you..   ....
Your hand touches the space next to you...
‘Shut up and hold me...’
you say
And I feel your warmth ...   ......
All of the above
Put your hair behind your ear
whispers
i want to tell you everything

You turn around and kiss my forehead...  ......  ... .      .....
you already have
you already have
stay with me
*stay with me....I want to show you forever
Eric the Red Feb 2018
On some days it won’t
Need tending to
We can watch the smoke
Billow & Reach
To the sky
Embers mixed with night

Other days it’ll be at the end
Of our wick
And it’ll seem like it’s dying
Just a whisper of light
We won’t like those days
But we’ll get through them
We always do

And some days will have
Blindness
Darkness
And we’ll need to feel it
Each other
Closer
‘Come warm yourself...’

But the best days
Will be when it seems
Like the world is alight
By our love
&
I’ll kiss every inch of your
Cindered
Skin
Wanting to be burnt
Alongside you

And hell won’t be of any surprise
Because I’d have been
With you...
Eric the Red Feb 2018
If all you give to love
Is a body

Don’t be surprised
If your Other
Goes in search
Of the missing parts
That you can’t give
Eric the Red Feb 2018
I swear there’s nothing
And I mean nothing better
Than the Beginnings
Of something wonderful

A steak
First sip of wine that cost more than $10
Someone’s words
Thunderstorm
Sunrise
Full Moons
Making eyes with a
Beautiful woman

Relationships
Are by far the best
Beginnings
Clothing becomes optional
&
All you want to do is
Be with them
&
Do anything they want
Eric the Red Feb 2018
She got up in the middle
Of the night
Looked over and saw him
Content
His phone buzzed
She gazed at it
‘I miss how you made my body
‘Feel the other night
‘Can we again soon?’

For a moment she froze
Broken
Hurt
But chose not to say
Anything
To him
Because she had the same
Secret
Across town
That she didn’t want to end
Eric the Red Feb 2018
If you know the mechanism
And you’ve survived all
These years
I
Applaud you

Men have it in small doses
Of rage
Barroom fights
Or when someone harms
One of their children
Understandable
Mechanism

I’ve seen & felt
The mechanism
3 or 4
Times in my existence

Where her eyes turn
Black as night
Like a shark
Ready to devour

Stabbed my food
‘I DONTWANNAPLAYRIGHTNOW!!!!!!!’

Tried running me over with the car
Threw a baseball at me from 3 feet away

Knives
Guns
If they were near
I probably wouldn’t be here

When you have that
Mechanism
You can shut off
Consequence
And the space in front
Of you
Becomes the most
Violent space
On earth
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