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Nicholas Ryan Sampson

Nicholas Ryan Sampson

Admire #1

I see poems that
need to be written
scrawled in the shape
of your smile and
the lines of your face
Poems of your life
your love
your death
I have read them all
never ceasing
repetitiously
I have been haunted
by you
I am writing
my exorcism

(2013)

#Death #Life #Love

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Always

I wrote this while thinking of you so I guess you could say this poem is eight years in the making
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Dependent

I’ve always been at the very least a little caught up on everything about you This idea of you
Nothing

I say hello and you say nothing You may hear me you may even think of a response
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Living

Everyday brings a new death in three words give or take Some days I drown
Healing

I don’t remember any anesthesia after talking with you but I woke up stitched back
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Her

Hope in another form but no fewer letters and I’ve been hoping for these past eight years so I’ll just keep on
Icarus

You were the wind beneath my wings but I was Icarus so all I did
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Silence

I get my silence in five minute doses before the plane overhead brings me back to earth
My Oxygen

Under the weight of life I forget how to breathe and I feel suffocated I hesitantly make peace with the world
Paper Heart

My heart was paper
 now folded six times over
 to make it harder
 to tear
 I only hope that

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Analog

There is a girl and I love her and I have loved her since the beg… Or so it seems to me as I only became conscious
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Canvas

I write sharp words with a sharper knife on page after page of what might as well be the skin of my back
Watch

The hands of this watch haven’t moved since the last time you did and I’m not sure if I’m ready to hear the ticking
Uphill

Life is an uphill struggle Nothing comes easy and only hard work pays off I don’t like hard work was my 5 word protest
Understatement

To put it simply each beat of your heart is a gift that I receive with the anticipation of a child at christmas



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