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Eric the Red Apr 2018
Sometime after 4am...
Her leg draped over mine
In the blue moonlight...
Candles out on the windowsill
I thought...
‘All that poetry was ******* worth it...’
Eric the Red Apr 2018
I’ve took them all
Our songs
Your poems
Pictures
Artwork shared that were on the
Walls of my heart

Shared
Sentiments
Went on a mission to eradicate

In dreams I hear you call to me
It’s still there
Summoning me
Crying out
‘I’m in pain...’

Took it all
To the edge of the world
And watched it go over the edge
Happy now
All of it gone
Only to return home
To find
Your art back up on my walls
Your words in my notebooks
Your songs playing on the radio
Your pictures in my head

I can’t escape this sentence
The walls of your prison
This is life
Eric the Red Apr 2018
Raging winds
Surges over the planks
Sea walls failing
30 foot swales
Lightning
Tropical
Flags whipping

Then ...
It stops
Blue sky in the swirl
Sun peeking thru
Birds come back out
Waters subside
People emerge
Gather damage

Lightning starts again
Winds come from
Another direction

It’s starting again

What it’s like to love you...
Eric the Red Apr 2018
whirlpool!
massive squid!
60 foot waves!
Dysentery
Seasickness
Plague
Burials at sea
we commit his body to the oceans
tidal waves
mermaids
serpents
octopus meals
broke rudder
compass malfunction*

‘My dearest love, by the time you get this
I will have perished in the high seas...you have my love, I will be forever in your dreams...you were my driving force, my have and to hold...my anchor down.’
Eric the Red Apr 2018
Every time she laughs...
Her beautiful infectious laugh...

A black rose
Breaks through
Ice in Antarctica
Eric the Red Apr 2018
When her manic met my manic
It was like watching stars
Being born in a nebula
And oh my was I excited
About the thought
Of waiting a million years
To watch their beauty unfold
Eric the Red Apr 2018
I promise
To raise all kinds of hell
With you
So our heads
Hit the gates
Of heaven
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