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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

Autres oeuvres par Nicholas Ryan Sampson...
Nothing

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

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

Just when I get back on my feet you pass on by and I lose my footing Again
Paper Heart

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

 2
Always

I wrote this while thinking of you so I guess you could say this poem is eight years in the making
 1
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Faulty

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

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

Everyday I visit the only writers block I know to hone my words and wit and help them cut deeper into the skin
Split

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

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

I was like a rain cloud over a small garden and dammit if you weren’t that garden so full of flowers that I fell in love
Dark

I’ve kept my eyes closed most of these past eighteen years because I find it just as dark
Healing

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