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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

Altre opere di Nicholas Ryan Sampson...
Sobering Up

I thought I could drink you away but I had to stop being so drunk on you first
Feeling

So much time passes without feeling a single thing that I think I would give anything
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
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
Poets

All that I know how to do is write about death without dying and write about life
 1
Split

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

I wrote this while thinking of you so I guess you could say this poem is eight years in the making
 1
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Hello

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
Nothing

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

I’ve kept my eyes closed most of these past eighteen years because I find it just as dark
Dependent

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

There is poetry in nature better left to be spoken wordlessly by the breeze
 2
Faulty

I grew up in a house built in 1937 long before codes and regulations and sometimes
 1
Reason

I awoke from a deep sleep and knew the reason was to write I love you
 1
Healing

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