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Nicholas Ryan Sampson

Nicholas Ryan Sampson

My Oxygen

Under the weight of life
I forget how to breathe
and I feel suffocated
 
I hesitantly make peace
with the world
and my collapsing lungs
 
You appear in my life
as you always do
when I’m losing my will
 
I gasp in air again
from the resuscitation
that your life performs on mine
 
You leave once more
so I hold my breath
knowing you’ll be back

(2013)

#HeartacheLife #Love

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Passion

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

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

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

The road is long and winding like nothing you can imagine Too many off ramps to count but too few in hindsight
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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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Autumn

Autumn sneaks in preceding dormancy Leaves take on new beauty with nothing left in them but a fa… Individually insignificant
Dependent

I’ve always been at the very least a little caught up on everything about you This idea of you
Asleep

I awoke in the dark next to you and more alone than ever I was amazed to hear your heart beating from
 1
Human/Nature

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

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

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

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

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