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Nicholas Ryan Sampson

Nicholas Ryan Sampson

Admire #2

I see words screaming
for attention
etched in the lines
of your face
Let me look closer
and read deeper
into you
Let me write poems
about your life
and eventually
about your death
Let me love you
from a distance
with words that
cut like knives

(2013)

#Death #Life #Love

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Empty

I feel empty unceasingly until you come along and fill my heart to bursting
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Poets

All that I know how to do is write about death without dying and write about life
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Admire #1

I see poems that need to be written scrawled in the shape of your smile and the lines of your face
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Friend

There is something to be said of a true friend One who will pull the knife from your back One who will stitch the wounds
Mightier

The pen must be
 mightier than the sword
 For there is nothing that
 will spill your guts faster
 than a bit of ink that says

Good/Bad Days

I wish you had told me that on the good days kissing you would make me think that I knew what happiness was and on the bad days
Drown

I was like a rain cloud over a small garden and dammit if you weren’t that garden so full of flowers that I fell in love
Whisper

I have whispered your name into the air so many times it has become the breeze that blows
 1
Nothing

I say hello and you say nothing You may hear me you may even think of a response
 1
Untitled

I would write a sweet poem and title it with your name if I loved you at all
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
 1
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Faulty

I grew up in a house built in 1937 long before codes and regulations and sometimes
 1
Writers Block

Everyday I visit the only writers block I know to hone my words and wit and help them cut deeper into the skin
Sobering Up

I thought I could drink you away but I had to stop being so drunk on you first
Wish

I spend my nights wishing on every star in the sky that you are alive and well
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