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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...
Nature

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

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

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

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

I was like a rain cloud over a small garden and dammit if you weren’t that garden so full of flowers that I fell in love
Faulty

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

Everyone sees god in a different light but I was born without eyes
 1
Wish

I spend my nights wishing on every star in the sky that you are alive and well
 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
Paper Heart

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

 2
Mightier

The pen must be
 mightier than the sword
 For there is nothing that
 will spill your guts faster
 than a bit of ink that says

Silence

I get my silence in five minute doses before the plane overhead brings me back to earth



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