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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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Understatement

To put it simply each beat of your heart is a gift that I receive with the anticipation of a child at christmas
Mountain

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

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

Everyday I lived out a song written just for you But you could
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Admire #2

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

You asked what I knew about you and I thought up a list of twenty things
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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Blind

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

I see no joyous rebirth in spring for autumn will bring another death I see no joyous rebirth
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
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
Feeling

So much time passes without feeling a single thing that I think I would give anything
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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Human/Nature

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

I awoke in the dark next to you and more alone than ever I was amazed to hear your heart beating from
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