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Nicholas Ryan Sampson

Nicholas Ryan Sampson

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
It was that simple
 
But when I was your age
he said
with a grin
It was uphill both ways
 
I couldn’t help but smile
I’m sure
Grandpa

(2013)

In Loving Memory
James F. Logue

#Life #MemoryStruggle #Work

Otras obras de Nicholas Ryan Sampson...
Aware

It must be a wednesday or a friday or any day at all for I am painfully aware of the wo… that consumes me
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Admire #1

I see poems that need to be written scrawled in the shape of your smile and the lines of your face
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Admire #2

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

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

You asked what I knew about you and I thought up a list of twenty things
Human/Nature

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

I spend my nights wishing on every star in the sky that you are alive and well
 1
Healing

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

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

I have whispered your name into the air so many times it has become the breeze that blows
 1
Blind

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

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