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Nicholas Ryan Sampson

Nicholas Ryan Sampson

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
It was that simple
 
But when I was your age
he said
with a grin
It was uphill both ways
 
I couldn’t help but smile
I’m sure
Grandpa

(2013)

In Loving Memory
James F. Logue

#Life #MemoryStruggle #Work

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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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Gently

I hope this is postmarked before my death certificate is dat… but you’ll know why if it is or if it isn’t If you get this in time
Human/Nature

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

Loving you was never sweet like the taste of vanilla the way I thought it was supposed to be It was more like
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Underwater

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

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

Under the weight of life I forget how to breathe and I feel suffocated I hesitantly make peace with the world
Nothing

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

The hands of this watch haven’t moved since the last time you did and I’m not sure if I’m ready to hear the ticking
Admire #2

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

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

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

My heart was paper
 now folded six times over
 to make it harder
 to tear
 I only hope that

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