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Nicholas Ryan Sampson

Nicholas Ryan Sampson

My Oxygen

Under the weight of life
I forget how to breathe
and I feel suffocated
 
I hesitantly make peace
with the world
and my collapsing lungs
 
You appear in my life
as you always do
when I’m losing my will
 
I gasp in air again
from the resuscitation
that your life performs on mine
 
You leave once more
so I hold my breath
knowing you’ll be back

(2013)

#HeartacheLife #Love

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Healing

I don’t remember any anesthesia after talking with you but I woke up stitched back
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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
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
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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Whisper

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

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

You were the wind beneath my wings but I was Icarus so all I did
 1
Mightier

The pen must be
 mightier than the sword
 For there is nothing that
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 than a bit of ink that says

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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Nothing

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

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