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Nicholas Ryan Sampson

Nicholas Ryan Sampson

Watch

In Loving Memory
Rickie Lee Hawthorne

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
again or if
I even remember
how to tell
time anymore

(2014)

#Death #HealingLife #Time

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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
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Blind

Everyone sees god in a different light but I was born without eyes
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Icarus

You were the wind beneath my wings but I was Icarus so all I did
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Underwater

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

I spend my nights wishing on every star in the sky that you are alive and well
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For You

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

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

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

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

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

I grew up in a house built in 1937 long before codes and regulations and sometimes
 1
Poets

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



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