Autumn, por Nicholas Ryan Sampson

Autumn

Autumn sneaks in

preceding dormancy

Leaves take on new beauty

with nothing left in them but a fall from grace

Individually insignificant

while masses burden

The colors give the illusion of burning out

but we really just fade away

(2012)

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

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

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

If nature were so flattered by poems written with itself in mind as people are we would be moving mountains

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

I have whispered your name into the air so many times it has become the breeze that blows

Forever seems like so long until I think of all the times spent waiting

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

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

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

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

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

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

I know that you were there in my dreams and in my arms Every dream we

So much time passes without feeling a single thing that I think I would give anything