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Nicholas Ryan Sampson

Admire #2

I see words screaming
for attention
etched in the lines
of your face
Let me look closer
and read deeper
into you
Let me write poems
about your life
and eventually
about your death
Let me love you
from a distance
with words that
cut like knives

(2013)

#Death #Life #Love

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I would write a sweet poem and title it with your name if I loved you at all
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I don’t remember any anesthesia after talking with you but I woke up stitched back
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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
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