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Nicholas Ryan Sampson

Nicholas Ryan Sampson

Knowing

Just when I get
back on my feet
you pass on by
and I lose my footing
Again
 
Each time I fall
I fall farther
and harder than before
and take longer
standing back up
 
And I question so desperately
if I make your knees
as weak as you make mine
to no avail
And that is only
half the battle

(2013)

#KnowingLife #Love

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Healing

I don’t remember any anesthesia after talking with you but I woke up stitched back
 1
One Way

The road is long and winding like nothing you can imagine Too many off ramps to count but too few in hindsight
 2
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
Icarus

You were the wind beneath my wings but I was Icarus so all I did
 1
Empty

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

I hope this is postmarked before my death certificate is dat… but you’ll know why if it is or if it isn’t If you get this in time
Nature

There is poetry in nature better left to be spoken wordlessly by the breeze
 2
Split

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

I awoke in the dark next to you and more alone than ever I was amazed to hear your heart beating from
 1
Underwater

Everyday I lived out a song written just for you But you could
 1
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
Meaning

I’ll keep searching for the meaning of life and I hope I find it as crumpled paper nearish a trash can
Autumn

Autumn sneaks in preceding dormancy Leaves take on new beauty with nothing left in them but a fa… Individually insignificant



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