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

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

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

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

Sometimes I wish I could read her mind, because a lot of the time she can't tell me herself. Sometimes I wish I could see the future, because a lot of the time I imagine her in it. Sometimes I wish she would never leave, because a lot of the time I miss her. Sometimes I wish she was truly mine, because a lot of the time she's all I want.

*djm

We are all ******* scared.
The ones who say they aren't,
are ******* liars.

*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

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

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

You're spectacular, darling.
That's all there is.

*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

I was taught from a young age, like most people were, that when faced with a problem you must think about it. The harder you think, the faster you will find a solution. I've come to realise that the more I think, the bigger my problem becomes. The more I search for a solution, the more it evades me. This pardox grows when the problem is a person that never leaves your thoughts.

*djm

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

*djm

I could describe to you in great detail the way her brow furrows when she thinks I'm making fun of her, or the way she places her unbearably cold feet in between mine to warm up. I could tell you how the tone in her voice changes ever so slightly when she tells me she loves me and really means it, or maybe the way she tells me every time without fail, "this feels nice" when I run my fingers through her hair. I could explain to you the way it feels to have her head rested on my chest, or how the the sensation of her skin on mine raises my heart rate by twenty. I could tell you all of these things, but maybe it wouldn't matter much to you. However, these are the small moments in my day that I hope never end.

*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

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

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

Raise your voice and society will silence you. Be excited about the future and the news will deter you. Be emotional about your losses and tolerance will be little. Be numb about your existence and you'll fit right in.

*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

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

Lost in a dance of confusion. We live the only way we know how. We hold on to some too tightly, while we let all others drown.

*djm

And it wasn't until I met you
that I understood it all.
I knew why people couldn't
stand to be apart.

I knew what it was like to be
up thinking about one person.
I knew what it felt like to
be scared to lose someone.

I knew why kisses mattered.
I knew what it was like to see
a flawed person as flawless.
I knew what it was to love.

*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

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

Run your fingers along my skin
and make me feel alive.
No one else does it like you.
I swear.

I hope you know
I'm not joking
when I say
that I love you, darling.

Because the face is capable
of over a thousand different expressions.

And I know every single one of yours.

*djm

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

*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

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

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

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

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

And the thing is that it just kind of creeps up on you. Between the late night conversations, harmless giggles and sweaty palms. You find yourself sitting there, looking at them, and realising you don't ever want them to leave.

*djm

If we actually got control of our lives the way we all profess we want to, we would be eternally bored. Dance the chaotic dance of life and ride the ride while you can. There will be bad days, but there will be bliss. Let go of wanting to control it, lean into the discomfort and let the unfortunate surprises become your fondest memories. A life without the full spectrum of emotions isn't much of a life at all.

*djm

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

*djm

Being inbetween a rock and a hard place isn't a problem. It's an opportunity and it's called life.

*djm

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