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438 · Apr 2011
Yes
Samuel Apr 2011
Yes
I want to fall asleep with you in my arms
You know I trust you

You know.
438 · Sep 2011
Reality
Samuel Sep 2011
Have you
              twisted yourself up to see if you can
Have you
              passed the night awake by fire
Have you
              come to realize the significance of significance
Have you
              come to recognize your realization as flawed
Will you
438 · Sep 2012
Change of State
Samuel Sep 2012
I'll explode and fan outward, touch
everything in the whole world because

desperate laughter is the worst kind
435 · Mar 2011
Learning
Samuel Mar 2011
That is a tree
And this is war.
435 · Aug 2012
The Clock Says
Samuel Aug 2012
The clock says smile and
  rush along the clock
     says we should eat heavily and
        drink until the oceans shrivel into
           our cups like death as a
               fire tide

The clock says hurry now before I
   get away from you, turn off the road and

****
             no more time.
434 · Aug 2011
Hide
Samuel Aug 2011
Don the mask it's
    time to go

soon we won't have to play this game
                          anymore
431 · Aug 2011
Love
Samuel Aug 2011
It's nothing special

Only smoke and
                             mirrors | srorrim
        most of the time


            
                          Except when it isn't.
429 · Apr 2012
Untitled
Samuel Apr 2012
nothing, it seems
always returns

the sound of the life
surrounding fragile
breath, do you know
what you have
                          
                            no?

­then watch it peel
off like a cancer and
sink out of your
murky sight

to bloom and
writhe and if these
thoughts have any
weight to gift three
blazing candles in
a night or two

rest assured they
will
427 · Aug 2011
Jump
Samuel Aug 2011
Who am I
                     if I cannot
                      bring myself to realize the
                      nature of the word

I know you.

Who am I?
425 · Sep 2012
Good Bits
Samuel Sep 2012
This is the
start of the rest, the
good bits - hang in
there
425 · May 2017
Misplaced Fear
Samuel May 2017
Expecting summer, I
choke down terror that
walks alongside convention

"oh, I'm just here for a
little while, saving
a bit of money so
I can do what
makes me feel
alive"

everyone stuttering,
gilded cages pieced
out of garbage

the irony settles like a cloud

to escape this world, I
need to save a bit more
money
424 · Sep 2012
Fall in a bit
Samuel Sep 2012
I'd like for the world to get a little
colder
           so I could have an excuse to curl
          up with you beside a shared fire

(as if I need one)
420 · Sep 2011
Pastion
Samuel Sep 2011
Remove the news from
Inside your mind, you're
Soon to lose all
Sense of time
417 · Apr 2010
Love is all.
Samuel Apr 2010
No matter the day
Be it morning or noon
No matter the time
The hours pass soon

Love is all
All my thoughts
All my dreams
My everything.

I wish for my baby
Wish for the fall
And despite all this madness
Love is all
415 · Jan 2012
Untitled
Samuel Jan 2012
life is only ever going
to be what we rely on it to
produce
410 · Mar 2011
T.
Samuel Mar 2011
T.
Is this all you will register as?
A change from 2132 to 2133 on my views.

I hope not.
407 · Mar 2012
Rock Letters
Samuel Mar 2012
the thought that I'm a lucky
person and luck
has nothing to
do with it
404 · Feb 2012
Remember
Samuel Feb 2012
to preserve forever in
a bubble of memory
rising to the surface of
your mind's Great Lake

and grow skyward like
ankles to men before the
sun sets on this adventure

before we realize the everlasting
nature of the day and follow our
own thoughts to the heart
of the matter
404 · Sep 2011
It
Samuel Sep 2011
It
It's not an idea, it's
    a concept. No,
  It would take too long to explain
       It, it is too difficult because
            It only exists when it is
               Visible and without it, it's
                          Impossible to see
    What is it?
                        It is important.
398 · Jul 2017
Seven Years
Samuel Jul 2017
Yesterday I forgot where I was
edges blurred and then
rushing back like blood

I won't let on, but
I'm pleased to have
remembered the
old me
Samuel Apr 2012
swept up in the most
beautiful night

there are no
words right now
391 · Jun 2011
Work
Samuel Jun 2011
I stare into the sun, twisted and
Aching from the things I put myself through to ensure
I am strong enough for you
And dream of a day that we will live
In a short while
When you tire yourself out, there's no time to be sad :)
390 · Nov 2011
Untitled
Samuel Nov 2011
Your voice.
385 · Jun 2011
Real Things
Samuel Jun 2011
I wish I could be aware of my previous and future selves
How much there would be to learn
Let me lay down
Let me sleep
Tell me I'm not too far gone
For my heart to be alone
380 · Jul 2017
Sam Saves The World
Samuel Jul 2017
The problem with our planet
(at least what we currently face)
is one of ceaseless travel,
indifference to space

Do trees protest their rootings?
Do ants fall out of line?
Yet our minds tend to wander, it
happens all the time

If only we could focus, but
our energies disperse
how easily we trail off into
arguably worse

It's not globalization
or the fault of the night news
it's all the me's forgetting
the importance of the you's

Strike up a conversation, and
acknowledge what's around
how else will your new neighbor
learn to bake that lovely pound

cake?
I couldn't resist.
378 · Jan 2012
Here
Samuel Jan 2012
It's raining and I'm cold
and I'm wondering where
you are
370 · Jul 2011
Untitled
Samuel Jul 2011
Slowly losing my grip on reality
356 · May 2017
Lackadaisical Candor
Samuel May 2017
I'm slightly out of
practice, a bit bent
out of shape like a
paper clip faced with
Rhode Island's taxes

at first glance, it might
seem as though I have
forgotten all I
once knew

first glances are rarely
accurate

what I do know is the
things that make you
you in your own
words, things like
cooking or
poetry or
smiles

these things don't die, they
hibernate until you're
smart enough to
wake them up
353 · Mar 2011
Question
Samuel Mar 2011
Can't feel anything
Does this mean I'm dying?
324 · May 2011
Untitled
Samuel May 2011
Don't fear it
Embrace it.

Then it will leave you alone.
316 · May 2017
Eggshells
Samuel May 2017
There is a certain fragility to kindness, an
impatient expectation of a return on
your investment
315 · Jul 2017
Borderline
Samuel Jul 2017
Given the crowded
state of our world, you'd
think we would have figured
out a way for one half to find its
other by now

/ seems we choose to
chase after money

/ can't buy me
love
313 · Aug 2012
Question #2
Samuel Aug 2012
Do you eat words like I do?
(Swallow them whole and kicking)
308 · Jul 2017
Treasure
Samuel Jul 2017
Time is a patient collector

/ eyeing its prize behind a
flawless tapestry of
insignificant celebration /

to whom we'll all
one day belong
I am baffled by the fact that — one day — each and every one of us will find out what happens next.

Adopting this perspective has corrected my course on many an occasion.
305 · Aug 2012
Waiting for
Samuel Aug 2012
It's darkest just before the dawn
but darling, you've been far too long from
these arms now that, left to one, grow
tired and fall limp like rags to sleep

come home and we'll make known
all the ways we both have grown
or just ring my phone, and
let me know you're there
302 · Jun 2016
Untitled
Samuel Jun 2016
sing me a song, prove
to me what I can't quite put my finger on
(after these tired feet come from their shells)
face to the sky like a flame
301 · May 2017
Gasp
Samuel May 2017
Every so often, we
/ become fish out of
/ water on a dock

flailing about for a
/ bit, then right back where
/ we ought to be
267 · Feb 2019
The Quiet
Samuel Feb 2019
at times the /
weight of this /
world drops like a /
guillotine between bits /
of rational thought and soft /
unassuming despair (the quiet /
sort that wants to skip to the end)
266 · May 2017
Hindsight Bias
Samuel May 2017
every few years, look
back on your prior
hopes with
disdain

how naive you were
then, but surely
you know
better now

your future self laughs.
255 · May 2017
Corporate Rainbow
Samuel May 2017
the real world, the world of business and
coffee and hurried hallway "how are you"s is
brown and gray and
stuffy

so I sit in my corner
and silently explode
into color
my world is green
254 · May 2017
Dead man
Samuel May 2017
you kept to yourself

and that makes everyone wonder, now
that you're gone

and I tried to explain that sometimes there's
nothing you can do to change
someone's mind, no sense
wondering whether a
simple good morning
would have kept
you around

hindsight is 20/20, but
nobody saw that coming
231 · May 2017
About You
Samuel May 2017
tell me about
                     you

not that
hum drum shell like
fake western tourist traps

let me in
226 · May 2017
Ant People
Samuel May 2017
Loads of people
milling about

like ants

food, water, money

do ants stop to consider each other?

maybe we should
193 · Jan 2021
Red-gold
Samuel Jan 2021
linger, you
/ spin my breath like fire, I
/ burn dreaming, form
/ your name, a shimmering coal

even at distance, I
/ trust its glow

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