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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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Wish

I spend my nights wishing on every star in the sky that you are alive and well
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Underwater

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

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

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

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

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

Just when I get back on my feet you pass on by and I lose my footing Again
Autumn

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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
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

Human/Nature

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

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

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

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

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



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