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Nicholas Ryan Sampson

Nicholas Ryan Sampson

Living

Everyday brings
a new death
in three words
give or take
Some days I drown
as if life were a flood
and I wore shackles
Some days bring suffocation
weights aimed to press
my chest into itself
And as long as
I am dying
I find it hard
to live

(2013)

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Icarus

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

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

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

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

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

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

If I was once the tallest mountain your love was the wind that eroded me to nothing
Forever

Forever seems like so long until I think of all the times spent waiting
Admire #1

I see poems that need to be written scrawled in the shape of your smile and the lines of your face
 1
 3
For You

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

Faulty

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

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