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Nicholas Ryan Sampson

Nicholas Ryan Sampson

Watch

In Loving Memory
Rickie Lee Hawthorne

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
again or if
I even remember
how to tell
time anymore

(2014)

#Death #HealingLife #Time

Other works by Nicholas Ryan Sampson...
Knowing

Just when I get back on my feet you pass on by and I lose my footing Again
Sobering Up

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

I have whispered your name into the air so many times it has become the breeze that blows
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Writers Block

Everyday I visit the only writers block I know to hone my words and wit and help them cut deeper into the skin
Blind

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

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

Forever seems like so long until I think of all the times spent waiting
Underwater

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

There is poetry in nature better left to be spoken wordlessly by the breeze
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For You

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

Autumn sneaks in preceding dormancy Leaves take on new beauty with nothing left in them but a fa… Individually insignificant
Faulty

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