Find meaning through responsibility.
Take responsibility for your relationship. Take responsibility for your health.
Take responsibility for your work.
You can’t change the way people are, but you can change the way you are.
Take responsibility for the person you are in this world.

Dan McDougall

Gushing thoughts pound against the walls of my mind like the raging sea. Untamed and irrational, I'm sure I'll drown in them one of these days.

*djm

I fell in to you recklessly and without a thought of what the repercussions would be if you refused to catch me.

*djm

Undeniably spontaneous in the splashes she makes in this word. Skipping herself across life feels easy when home doesn't have a postcode and everyone she meets is a friend.

*djm

Undercurrents pulling you deeper. Chase a chemical high on the back of a dream. You'll be a legend for a night in your own right. But complacency leads to boredom and boredom leads to a wasted life. .

*djm

Blossoming into life with a love so fierce that not even the winter could **** your vibe. Shining through clouds of anguish to temporarily bring warmth to others is the way you've played the game. A warm hug and a smile are your type of handshake. You're precious and spectacular and that's more than I or anyone in this world deserves from you, yet you freely give us yourself at the cost of you. If the world's core was made of your heart maybe the wrong parts of the world would start feeling a little more right.

*djm

Unload your worries and reload your love. Shoot your cannon of insecurities into my chest and let them become mine the way the wind helps carry the leaves. Hold onto my ribs and dip your toes in the water of life. Let me be the eclipse of your world. Forget the glasses. Let us fall blind in love from how brightly we burn.

*djm

Look at a tree and see the beauty caused by the weather it endured. Let your hard times bend your trunk and twist your limbs. Let the wind rustle your leaves and crack your bark. Let the hard times mould you into the unique symbol of strength you deserve to be.

*djm

Perhaps you'll meet a boy with soft eyes and sharp wits who'll be light on his feet and lighter with his touch.
Perhaps you'll meet a boy who thinks deep and runs hot with passion.
Perhaps you'll meet a boy who doesn't care about your faults, or why you do that thing with your face when you wake up.
Perhaps you'll meet him and be too busy wondering why that last boy didn't stay.

*djm

Grinding, sweaty, throw yourself in to the abyss of their body. Let the bed swallow you both whole as your desires stain the sheets. Cover them in your essence even just for one night, but be careful who you choose.

*djm

You can chain smoke all you want as long as you don't lie. Cancer tastes better than deceit.

*djm

Shells of people swept madly into the undercurrents of their desires tend to hold on to the reins of life a little more tightly. Knowing full well their ticket to ride comes with an expiration date far closer than those whom spend life inside the lines.

*djm

In a world with unlimited options, the choices you make determine your trajectory. Every time you say yes to one thing, you are saying no to another. Stop living in fear of the unknown. Leave the country, read a library, quit your job. Do what you want because you can just as easily fail at the things you don't want.

*djm

Indistinguishable features on the heart you once held daily make you wonder if you ever held it at all.

*djm

Put your overzealous emotions away for the night because the undergrowth of the city is shifting beneath us. Dance out of your skin, child. Kiss someone you don't know.

*djm

Desensitisation to the objects around you is inevitable. Buy the new car you've always wanted, that outfit you've been dreaming of, the latest phone, the best of the best in all aspects. Buy it all, but I promise you after long enough they all just become things you own and they lose their magic. Spend your time and money on experience, not objects.

*djm

He lit his cigarettes on his heart he was filled with so much passion.
She stumbled over flat surfaces she was so used to falling in love.
He had sore shoulders from holding his act for so long.
She had sore feet from running into all the wrong people.
He removed his mask when they met.
She built a wall.

*djm

Fill the cracks of others with love instead of trying to pry them open enough to find out what caused the cracks to begin with.

*djm

If the world cursed me to see one thing for the rest of my days, I'd pray it was the image of you in a moment of true happiness and bliss. Your soul shines through your pores when you smile and no words I write could ever describe how beautiful that is.

*djm

The simple truth is that if the people you surround yourself with every day don't reflect the type of person you want to be, you'll never be the person you want to be.

*djm

Five years from this point you won't remember this point. If you remember that every time your points are blunt, things won't seem so big anymore.

*djm

Soft breaths and restless mumbles to my right have become the soundtrack to my nights. The only time you're more vulnerable is when you're choosing to love me every day, but that's okay because every day I choose you too.

*djm

You give me that what are you doing here? I barely know your name. You cosmos of confusion, you paradox on parade. You ring on for eternity, with your warm chord strummed, in the name of spontaneous adventures and fun.  

*djm

Fold yourself into my arms and let your restless thoughts desolve to the sound of my heartbeat. Brought together by chance; staying together by choice. Your depths are unending in a world that's so shallow. I never knew home could be found in a stranger.

*djm

The demand keeps the cranks turning on the accidental machine that I've built. Well oiled and free-flowing, it taxes my body instead of my wallet. Text messages, lies, and colours that fly. Maybe I should have read the instruction manual first.

*djm

You ask questions like the answer could change your life. You shuffle your feet and tip toe across the part of me that doesn't want to be alone anymore. Be the foreign feeling I long for and your maybe I shouldn't will become who wouldn't?

*djm

She's a loaded gun. Her eyes dance with the devil as they avoid mine. Smoke caught in my throat, my tongue down hers. Give me this tonight, but not forever. Give me this tonight, but not forever.

*djm

Lips on necks and hands on chests. Your body bends like your morals and the girl you said you'd never be knocks on the door of "what's your name again?"

*djm

May your intense hunger for adventure always triumph over your crippling fear of failure.

*djm

You weren't meant to let it get to this point but you did anyway. You let the things slip you shouldn't have and you ****** around when you should have been working. You did all the wrong things because they felt good and that's alright.

*djm

Drugs are the realest of falsehoods when reality isn't where you want to be.

*djm

I never believed in marriage. I figured that a ring and a piece of paper could never demonstrate the true depth of what loving another being with nothing less than everything you can possibly give them is. Nothing ever really can except people themselves.

*djm

Smoke's dancing into the lungs that blacken what we call us. The lie blurs what she knows and her violin smile doesn't play now. This is not right, but nothing can be damaging when time holds no relevance.

*djm

Give away attachment in favour of happiness. Attachment to her. Attachment to him. Attachment to things. Attachment to hope, dreams and beliefs. Attachment makes you heavy. Attachment drains you. It holds you just tight enough to let you see the world, but not explore it.

*djm

I watch you. I watch your heart grow heavier with every tear. How many away from goodbye are you now? How could your limbs bare the weight of my indecision any longer? I wonder if your eyes sting from the times you held back your tears so I could have mine. I know each frustrated sigh is followed by a spoon full of doubt to wash down the unbearable feeling of "maybe he will never be what I need".

*djm

She cascaded into me with the feeling of does this change things? With the curiosity of maybe the castles we built were meant to last. Her lips collided into what will become familiar.

*djm

There is no direction or plan. The things I own are an accumulation of the years I've lived. The feelings I have are an accumulation of the pain I've felt. The beliefs I have stem from the minds of others. Sometimes it worries me, but like you, everything is temporary. Now comes the purpose.

*djm

The problem with having so many conflicting thoughts is not that they exist, but that we do not give ourselves the time nor the area for them to take stage. You can't expect your mind to calm by repeating the same steps that caused it to be so loud to begin with.

*djm

Lay me down in your meadows. Sing my song as the winds of my admiration shift your foundations. Chasing forevers isn't impossible when I'm a compass and you're north.

*djm

She scared me because she was going to shine whether I was there or not. She knew she didn't need anyone else for her to have a brilliant life, so she started building one on her own.

*djm

I won't beg you to stay or try to convince you why you should care. I won't sing and dance for you the way others might. If you want me, I am yours completely. If you don't, I'll be yours from a distance.

*djm

Few things in the world feel as lonely as when the person you used to consider as home becomes all but a complete stranger. Find your bearings and keep stumbling forward because the pain won't stop just because they've said sorry.

*djm

Emerse yourself in the life you want. Spend time doing the things that make you sit back, look at your life, and exclaim I ******* love this ****. It's just not worth it otherwise.

*djm

Don't be surprised when the trembling hands you placed your heart in can't maintain the strength you require.

*djm

How are we ever meant to figure out who we are when there is no consistency in our values? You're a different person at home than you are at work and different again at school. How are you meant to be you when you keeps changing?

*djm

I promise to always be present with you. My mind won't wander from the oceans of your eyes even in the wildest of storms.

*djm