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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

Altre opere di Nicholas Ryan Sampson...
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
Understatement

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

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

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

I awoke from a deep sleep and knew the reason was to write I love you
 1
Forever

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

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

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

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

Everyone sees god in a different light but I was born without eyes
 1
Nature

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

I feel empty unceasingly until you come along and fill my heart to bursting
 1
Bad Taste

Loving you was never sweet like the taste of vanilla the way I thought it was supposed to be It was more like
 1
My Oxygen

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



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