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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

Other works by Nicholas Ryan Sampson...
Paper Heart

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

 2
Poets

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

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

You were the wind beneath my wings but I was Icarus so all I did
 1
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
Knowing

Just when I get back on my feet you pass on by and I lose my footing Again
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
 1
My Oxygen

Under the weight of life I forget how to breathe and I feel suffocated I hesitantly make peace with the world
Mightier

The pen must be
 mightier than the sword
 For there is nothing that
 will spill your guts faster
 than a bit of ink that says

Passion

Passion doesn’t arise from 12 point Times New Roman but rather from ink on one page and another
 1
Feeling

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

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

Forever seems like so long until I think of all the times spent waiting
Nature

There is poetry in nature better left to be spoken wordlessly by the breeze
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