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Nicholas Ryan Sampson

Nicholas Ryan Sampson

Asleep

I awoke in the dark
next to you and
more alone than ever
I was amazed to hear
your heart beating from
so many miles away
For years I had hoped
that you might wake up
But you were always asleep
to me

(2014)

#Life #LossLove

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Sophia Grey
Altre opere di Nicholas Ryan Sampson...
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
Canvas

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

I’ve kept my eyes closed most of these past eighteen years because I find it just as dark
Empty

I feel empty unceasingly until you come along and fill my heart to bursting
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Admire #2

I see words screaming for attention etched in the lines of your face Let me look closer
Passion

Passion doesn’t arise from 12 point Times New Roman but rather from ink on one page and another
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Nature

There is poetry in nature better left to be spoken wordlessly by the breeze
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Sobering Up

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

You asked what I knew about you and I thought up a list of twenty things
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

Living

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

I’ve always been at the very least a little caught up on everything about you This idea of you
Healing

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

Everyday I lived out a song written just for you But you could
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