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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...
Blind

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

Life is an uphill struggle Nothing comes easy and only hard work pays off I don’t like hard work was my 5 word protest
Whisper

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

Autumn sneaks in preceding dormancy Leaves take on new beauty with nothing left in them but a fa… Individually insignificant
Split

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

All that I know how to do is write about death without dying and write about life
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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
Nothing

I say hello and you say nothing You may hear me you may even think of a response
 1
Canvas

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

I wrote this while thinking of you so I guess you could say this poem is eight years in the making
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Dependent

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

I awoke from a deep sleep and knew the reason was to write I love you
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Writers Block

Everyday I visit the only writers block I know to hone my words and wit and help them cut deeper into the skin



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