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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

Altre opere di Nicholas Ryan Sampson...
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
Canvas

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

I feel empty unceasingly until you come along and fill my heart to bursting
 1
Analog

There is a girl and I love her and I have loved her since the beg… Or so it seems to me as I only became conscious
 1
 1
Reason

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

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

You were the wind beneath my wings but I was Icarus so all I did
 1
Human/Nature

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

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

Life is an uphill struggle Nothing comes easy and only hard work pays off I don’t like hard work was my 5 word protest
Silence

I get my silence in five minute doses before the plane overhead brings me back to earth
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
Admire #2

I see words screaming for attention etched in the lines of your face Let me look closer
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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