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Nicholas Ryan Sampson

Nicholas Ryan Sampson

Admire #1

I see poems that
need to be written
scrawled in the shape
of your smile and
the lines of your face
Poems of your life
your love
your death
I have read them all
never ceasing
repetitiously
I have been haunted
by you
I am writing
my exorcism

(2013)

#Death #Life #Love

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Reason

I awoke from a deep sleep and knew the reason was to write I love you
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Passion

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

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

It must be a wednesday or a friday or any day at all for I am painfully aware of the wo… that consumes me
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Living

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

I see no joyous rebirth in spring for autumn will bring another death I see no joyous rebirth
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
Good/Bad Days

I wish you had told me that on the good days kissing you would make me think that I knew what happiness was and on the bad days
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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For You

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

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
Underwater

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