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Eric the Red Apr 2018
I wonder if her fake accounts will give me a true account of who she really is...
Eric the Red Apr 2018
Stop telling people you’ve never met
Over the internet

That you love them

They only use you
For your
Looks
Music
Validation

And later on that day
After you give them a song
They tell someone else
‘Listen to this one...’

They must love them too
Or just continue the charade
Cause they make you feel
Wonderful
Don’t they?
Eric the Red Apr 2018
So many times...
In many different ways...
The tree gave up its fruit...
To be picked by us...
Shiny...brilliant
Ripe...
Ready to be eaten...
Even if forbidden...
It grew tired of waiting...
Those trees bear no fruit now...
And how you used to beg the moon...
Praying to it...
To deliver to you...
It did...
Gave you the answer right in front of you
Sent a comet...
With a beautiful tail...
And once again you let it out of sight...
Knowing it would come back...
Just not knowing when...

Walk barefoot in the orchard...
In the midday light...
Rotting. Waiting. So much fruit.
For you.
And you did nothing

All this life has taught you
So many lessons
And it’s done giving them to you...
Take what’s on the ground
&
Make a pie...
Eric the Red Apr 2018
The worst thing that could ever
Happen
Ever

Is to lose sight of you
To say
‘I’m taking a break...I’ll be around though’
Then disappearing
Going away
Forgetting
Then 10, 15, 20 years
Down the road
Seeing you and saying
‘Hey you...remember me?’
Eric the Red Apr 2018
If all...
You’re known for in this life
Is loving someone
The right way
Just one
And you put all the distractions
Temptations
Sinful nature
Of us
Away

You are brave
Truly

Enjoy that
Eric the Red Apr 2018
My dream last night
My children
11 and 16 now
In the dream my son
Was 4 again
And he was sobbing
Uncontrollably
Told him to catch his breath
Kept ******* air
Trying to explain
Why he was wronged
But only tears came out
So I held him
Close to my chest
And he fit
And it subsided
And he just let it out
Then the smell of them as babies
Came upon me
How they’d sleep on me
My chest
How I love being a dad
They live with their mom a mile
From me
But it might as well be a
Million
And now I’m sobbing uncontrollably
******* air
With no one to
Tell me it’s going to
Be ok...
The sadness is so overwhelming this morning
#divorce #dads #children #myhearts
Eric the Red Apr 2018
Metal strewn about...
Fires of jet fuel reek the air...
Intermittent
A shoe
Seat 12A
Tray table
Heat from fuel pit
Raging
Zombies walking about
Dazed
Survivors
Smeared with black
Seats 17C & 24B
Still strapped in
Just torsos
&
A tie
Fuselage
Upside down
Body part unidentifiable
Papers
Came down in cornfield
Scorched earth
Yellow inflatables strewn
Crumpled
Caved in
Inferno
Sunlight peeking thru...
5,000 pieces
How could anybody survive this?
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