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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...
Forever

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

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

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

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

I’ll keep searching for the meaning of life and I hope I find it as crumpled paper nearish a trash can
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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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
Whisper

I have whispered your name into the air so many times it has become the breeze that blows
 1
Dependent

I’ve always been at the very least a little caught up on everything about you This idea of you
Nothing

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

Passion doesn’t arise from 12 point Times New Roman but rather from ink on one page and another
 1
Admire #2

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

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

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