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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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If nature were so flattered by poems written with itself in mind as people are we would be moving mountains
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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Hope in another form but no fewer letters and I’ve been hoping for these past eight years so I’ll just keep on
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If I was once the tallest mountain your love was the wind that eroded me to nothing
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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
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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



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