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Eric the Red Apr 2022
It never rains here
Just snow and cold
It’s been 2 years since i was in a
Thunderstorm
No lightning off in the distance
No thunderheads billowing
No thunder for that matter
Rising up
In the southwest
Humidity you can feel on your skin
And in your soul
No fireflies
Turning their lights on and off in the bushes
No backyard barbecues
Family laughter
Miss you all
Red dirt backroads
Good ol Boys and 20 minute commutes

It never rains here
Just snow and cold
Hour commutes
Coffins on wheels
And no time for anything
The sun sets behind mountains
People get into road rage here
They die on bicycles
70 percent of take home goes to rent
Just so I can say I live in Colorado…
I never want to understand this cursed place
Eric the Red Apr 2022
If I don’t move a muscle and stare
I can see all of my dreams
Nightmares
Smell of your skin
Leaving me
Eyes can move
Legs get up and it’s gone
Joy
War
Famine
Upheaval
The dark filled sky
Starless
All of it
Walking towards it
Dreams
Forgetfulness
Lost
All of it
Forever…
Eric the Red Apr 2022
I’ve dug myself so deep a hole
In this life
That I have no choice
But to write my way
Out of it…

One **** line of poetry
After another…
Eric the Red Apr 2022
‘I’ll make you feel like you’re closing a cell behind you for 10 to 14 hours a day…
‘I’ll give you an hour at home for eating when you get home…
Then you’ll be so tired there’ll be nothing ..
‘I’ll age you rapidly..
‘I’ll make you feel rundown for loyalty ..
‘I’ll message you on what vacation I give you
…demanding an answer by the end of the day’
‘I’ll make the years go by like weeks…
‘I’ll make you lie there staring at the ceiling
…at 4am, wondering why you have to do this again…today..’
‘I’ll give you just enough to get by and make the bills pile up…’
‘I’ll make the weekends go by like they’re part of the week..’
‘I’ll give you the false sense in your head
…that you love it here.’
Remember that
Eric the Red Apr 2022
One day I’ll walk right out of this place…
Been saying it for years now
This thing killing me daily
14 hour days
Come in when it’s dark
Leave as the sun goes down
Business
Industry
Sales growth
Horseshit
Replaceable by the end of the day
All of it

One day I’ll walk right out of this place…
Not say anything to anyone
Will it matter 50 years from now?
It would in 50 minutes
That which is my responsibility
Alimony
Support
Medical Insurance
Food on the table
Fear
Guess that’s why I clock in for death
Daily
And in 100 years I’ll have been a poet for just 30 seconds…
Eric the Red Dec 2021
Only in the darkness
Does one truly feel alive
Eyes open wide
The light burning
for it to please please
Go away
.
Some live the day in the fake
clawing in all intensified
Back to take me cavernous
Darkness
Staring at walls
All hours of the night
waiting for something
anything
To come through
.
'Take me with you...'
'I'm going on ahead,' they say
in all the cold, watching them
get smaller and smaller
Until finally out of view
Leaving you in the dark
where you wanted to be in the first place...
Eric the Red Dec 2021
Forever is the loneliest
Train Station

Waiting for someone
Who said they’d be there too…
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