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Nicholas Ryan Sampson

Nicholas Ryan Sampson

Living

Everyday brings
a new death
in three words
give or take
Some days I drown
as if life were a flood
and I wore shackles
Some days bring suffocation
weights aimed to press
my chest into itself
And as long as
I am dying
I find it hard
to live

(2013)

#DeathLife

Autres oeuvres par Nicholas Ryan Sampson...
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
Canvas

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

To put it simply each beat of your heart is a gift that I receive with the anticipation of a child at christmas
Poets

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

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

 2
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
 1
Healing

I don’t remember any anesthesia after talking with you but I woke up stitched back
 1
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
Underwater

Everyday I lived out a song written just for you But you could
 1
Nature

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

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

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



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