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

I would write a sweet poem and title it with your name if I loved you at all
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I have whispered your name into the air so many times it has become the breeze that blows
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Paper Heart

My heart was paper
 now folded six times over
 to make it harder
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I don’t remember any anesthesia after talking with you but I woke up stitched back
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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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Forever

Forever seems like so long until I think of all the times spent waiting
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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
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Everyday I lived out a song written just for you But you could
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Canvas

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