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Andrew McElroy May 2014
We smashed through
plates of glass
on our way back down
from China.
We swam through
oceans of plastic bags
only to reach
the oily surface
of the Pacific's
deep heart of blue.
We flew through
red clouds of smoke,
feeling higher
with each breath
we took; to only find our
coastlines and insides
filled with factory stacks
of mobile empires,
run by thieves and crooks.

We thought we thought
the craziest thought.

We should have known better
than to blame our neighbor.
Andrew McElroy Apr 2014
I find myself
Sometimes
(But only then)
Thinking about it
(what could it be?)
Too. . .

What will happen now?

I have smiles some days
and on bad days I smile
the other way around and
Sundays are bad days
Because I can't remember
What happened for the last
Seven days; well you see
what happened was,
I left home for the west coast
and found myself a different home
and surrounded myself with a little bit
of friends in that little bit of shack.
Beer, fish, grass and waves, ****, girls, lights
and strange madness erupted
into the canal streets of that little fishing town;
It was beautiful.
Like a dream out of a movie.
Made straight out of Hollywood in the 1950's.

For a split-second I thought about going back home
I think I did for a day or two in my mind. . .
and then suddenly I woke up!
This time on the easy-east coast
In a fluster of sandy beach hippies - my family
and friends scattered out on top of the yard
Days and days and days and days of
Drugs and rice and sand, non-stop funk, horseshoes, beer, waves,
more grass and more beer, sunsets and sunrises,
and strange women with multicolored eyes
and all of their weird ways.

It all seemed like a wisp of smoke now . . .
But I'd like to say that I built a ship that will sail eternally
Through these stormy seas of our fragile lives.
We as this corroded house will forever withstand the winds
Of nature and time
In itself - in ourselves.

**We are one.
This one is more of me just collecting my thoughts than a poem.
Pay no mind, move along. . . slowly.

<3 ***
Andrew McElroy Mar 2014
There was a fire in the Northern sky
and I couldn’t dare look away.

Its slow death reigned on me
so innocently that
I then became the king of the Badlands.

The war struck woods.
There they were

Stuck in a solid line -
one by one, body after body;
I followed casually behind.

I watched them come undone
in the flowing current.
It was time for past ground to be reached

so I let them have it.
The ashes rained down
So swiftly that

I had a second to think
about this ground under my feet
It is mine.

My own earth.
No one shall ever take it.
I will die on this land.

As I thought about this peace –

A hand took shape into mine.
I turned to look and there it was,
The blazing flame

In my morning sky.
The solid star shine
Every night. . .

My picture perfect view hadn’t burned out
It was just my eyes that needed adjustment.

Her cool breath woke me every morning
and it's only getting hotter. . .

How about I start one more fire?
Andrew McElroy Mar 2014
I certainly shattered
All the remains of your stone heart.
But not on purpose,
Just out of a sudden urge.

I needed a mess to clean up.
I had to walk barefoot across the tiled floor just a few more times.
I like the designs my feet make: ****** quarter moons with each step I take

Six or seven tiny pieces
Shimmy their way deeper into my heel
I look at it as your way of making a solid path through the shady forests of my soul
And making yourself at home
In the bending tree branch house
Which has nurtured my tortured heart
Back to assembly line standards.

Just as my hands begin to cramp up,
My fingers slide back out.

What a future proof idea;
To turn around and find one that
Could withstand the force for a few years longer than the rest.

What is your bet?
So close yet so far away.
Andrew McElroy Mar 2014
Could I be the one that makes you want it?
Andrew McElroy Feb 2014
Under the grey sky*
I saw you. . .

There;

In your purple dress.
You stood like a statue
Of a Greek Goddess

Hovering over.
You took two shallow steps
To pull me out and
Not let me sink

Underneath all of this
Filth that I've created.

I wouldn't go back
Even if I could,
I couldn't go back
Even if I would.

Your lips moved twice
And signaled me in.

-Safe landings-
I'll make it home
Eventually. . .

The carpet is
A loaded gun.

*I am your target.
Andrew McElroy Feb 2014
Love:

Like a chance
I blew it.

Your birthday is over and
The candles have
Met your cake
To *kiss
each other
Once more before
Meeting the eternal yard
Of broken hearts
and past wishes.

A past-time
Breathed out.

Another
Trashcan journey
For (
me without) you.

Numbers mean nothing
Anymore.

Next Sunday
We will burn *our last sunrise
.

Are you ready for. . .
The End?
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