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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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Altre opere di Nicholas Ryan Sampson...
Admire #2

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

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

There seems to be a drought in my… but who knows if it is the cause or the result of the war raging within me
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
Poets

All that I know how to do is write about death without dying and write about life
 1
Whisper

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

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

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

The hands of this watch haven’t moved since the last time you did and I’m not sure if I’m ready to hear the ticking
Human/Nature

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

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

Paper Heart

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

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