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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

Autres oeuvres par Nicholas Ryan Sampson...
Feeling

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

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

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

Everyday brings a new death in three words give or take Some days I drown
Passion

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

I awoke in the dark next to you and more alone than ever I was amazed to hear your heart beating from
 1
Dependent

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

I awoke from a deep sleep and knew the reason was to write I love you
 1
For You

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

I write sharp words with a sharper knife on page after page of what might as well be the skin of my back
Mountain

If I was once the tallest mountain your love was the wind that eroded me to nothing
Admire #1

I see poems that need to be written scrawled in the shape of your smile and the lines of your face
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