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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)

#DeathLife

Altre opere di Nicholas Ryan Sampson...
Admire #1

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

It must be a wednesday or a friday or any day at all for I am painfully aware of the wo… that consumes me
 1
Split

I know that you were there in my dreams and in my arms Every dream we
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
Admire #2

I see words screaming for attention etched in the lines of your face Let me look closer
Faulty

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

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

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

 2
Wish

I spend my nights wishing on every star in the sky that you are alive and well
 1
Human/Nature

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

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

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

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