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Nicholas Ryan Sampson

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

Altre opere di Nicholas Ryan Sampson...
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
Paper Heart

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

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Untitled

I would write a sweet poem and title it with your name if I loved you at all
Sobering Up

I thought I could drink you away but I had to stop being so drunk on you first
Canvas

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

If nature were so flattered by poems written with itself in mind as people are we would be moving mountains
Split

I know that you were there in my dreams and in my arms Every dream we
Rebirth

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

I feel empty unceasingly until you come along and fill my heart to bursting
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Healing

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

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

You asked what I knew about you and I thought up a list of twenty things
Nothing

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