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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...
Whisper

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

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

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

Hope in another form but no fewer letters and I’ve been hoping for these past eight years so I’ll just keep on
Feeling

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

You were the wind beneath my wings but I was Icarus so all I did
 1
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
Understatement

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

The road is long and winding like nothing you can imagine Too many off ramps to count but too few in hindsight
 2
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
Nature

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

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

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



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