Samuel Decker Thompson
@adudewritingpoetry.bsky.social
Poet, father, massage therapist, personal trainer, amongst other things.
Tucson, AZ
My book
https://amzn.to/3uxBfOT
Tucson, AZ
My book
https://amzn.to/3uxBfOT
I knew there shouldn’t be another date because I already knew what the next one would cost me.
I would have loved her. Completely. Stupidly.
Without keeping anything in reserve, and then she would have destroyed me.
Completely. Ruthlessly.
Maybe she would have tried to love me too.
Maybe ...
I would have loved her. Completely. Stupidly.
Without keeping anything in reserve, and then she would have destroyed me.
Completely. Ruthlessly.
Maybe she would have tried to love me too.
Maybe ...
October 2, 2026 at 2:49 PM
I knew there shouldn’t be another date because I already knew what the next one would cost me.
I would have loved her. Completely. Stupidly.
Without keeping anything in reserve, and then she would have destroyed me.
Completely. Ruthlessly.
Maybe she would have tried to love me too.
Maybe ...
I would have loved her. Completely. Stupidly.
Without keeping anything in reserve, and then she would have destroyed me.
Completely. Ruthlessly.
Maybe she would have tried to love me too.
Maybe ...
There are people who leave because love became impossible,
and others who leave because your usefulness ran out.
Wisdom is learning the difference,
but closure is in the moment you stop chasing an explanation from someone whose absence has already given you one.
-Samuel Decker Thompson
#poetry
and others who leave because your usefulness ran out.
Wisdom is learning the difference,
but closure is in the moment you stop chasing an explanation from someone whose absence has already given you one.
-Samuel Decker Thompson
#poetry
September 30, 2026 at 2:25 PM
There are people who leave because love became impossible,
and others who leave because your usefulness ran out.
Wisdom is learning the difference,
but closure is in the moment you stop chasing an explanation from someone whose absence has already given you one.
-Samuel Decker Thompson
#poetry
and others who leave because your usefulness ran out.
Wisdom is learning the difference,
but closure is in the moment you stop chasing an explanation from someone whose absence has already given you one.
-Samuel Decker Thompson
#poetry
You found the empty rooms inside them and filled them with every tenderness you knew,
hoping that being loved gently might teach their heart a new language,
but in the end,
they returned your kindness in the only language they had learned,
and somewhere between meeting them and ...
hoping that being loved gently might teach their heart a new language,
but in the end,
they returned your kindness in the only language they had learned,
and somewhere between meeting them and ...
September 29, 2026 at 9:33 PM
You found the empty rooms inside them and filled them with every tenderness you knew,
hoping that being loved gently might teach their heart a new language,
but in the end,
they returned your kindness in the only language they had learned,
and somewhere between meeting them and ...
hoping that being loved gently might teach their heart a new language,
but in the end,
they returned your kindness in the only language they had learned,
and somewhere between meeting them and ...
Some people love you like weather,
warm when it suits them,
cold when it doesn’t,
and you spend too many nights wondering what you did to change the season ...
#spokenword #poetry
warm when it suits them,
cold when it doesn’t,
and you spend too many nights wondering what you did to change the season ...
#spokenword #poetry
September 17, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Some people love you like weather,
warm when it suits them,
cold when it doesn’t,
and you spend too many nights wondering what you did to change the season ...
#spokenword #poetry
warm when it suits them,
cold when it doesn’t,
and you spend too many nights wondering what you did to change the season ...
#spokenword #poetry
September 10, 2026 at 2:56 PM
September 4, 2026 at 3:17 PM
There are people who hold us like water in their hands,
careful enough not to spill us, yet never willing to drink deeply.
They walk beside us through every season,
offering warm smiles,
shared silences,
and promises wrapped in delicate paper ...
careful enough not to spill us, yet never willing to drink deeply.
They walk beside us through every season,
offering warm smiles,
shared silences,
and promises wrapped in delicate paper ...
August 9, 2026 at 3:52 PM
There are people who hold us like water in their hands,
careful enough not to spill us, yet never willing to drink deeply.
They walk beside us through every season,
offering warm smiles,
shared silences,
and promises wrapped in delicate paper ...
careful enough not to spill us, yet never willing to drink deeply.
They walk beside us through every season,
offering warm smiles,
shared silences,
and promises wrapped in delicate paper ...
There is no wrong time for love.
What the world calls timing is often nothing more than two hearts deciding that forever begins now.
-Samuel Decker Thompson
What the world calls timing is often nothing more than two hearts deciding that forever begins now.
-Samuel Decker Thompson
August 7, 2026 at 1:46 PM
There is no wrong time for love.
What the world calls timing is often nothing more than two hearts deciding that forever begins now.
-Samuel Decker Thompson
What the world calls timing is often nothing more than two hearts deciding that forever begins now.
-Samuel Decker Thompson
Sometimes, what hurts the most is not that people leave,
it is that they forget how many times you found reasons to always stay.
-Samuel Decker Thompson
#poetry #spokenword
it is that they forget how many times you found reasons to always stay.
-Samuel Decker Thompson
#poetry #spokenword
July 11, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Sometimes, what hurts the most is not that people leave,
it is that they forget how many times you found reasons to always stay.
-Samuel Decker Thompson
#poetry #spokenword
it is that they forget how many times you found reasons to always stay.
-Samuel Decker Thompson
#poetry #spokenword
I think we are standing on opposite sides of the same wreckage, both of us exhausted by the ridiculous business of trying to find love amongst people who only seem capable of letting us down,
as if that was the assignment handed to them at birth; to catch our attention just long enough to ...
as if that was the assignment handed to them at birth; to catch our attention just long enough to ...
May 26, 2026 at 4:38 AM
I think we are standing on opposite sides of the same wreckage, both of us exhausted by the ridiculous business of trying to find love amongst people who only seem capable of letting us down,
as if that was the assignment handed to them at birth; to catch our attention just long enough to ...
as if that was the assignment handed to them at birth; to catch our attention just long enough to ...
