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Daniel McDougall Mar 2014
Raindrops on windows start so small.
They slowly move along
while picking up bits as they go.
They collect more and more
until soon they are too full.
Their decline quickens
and then they smash
into a beautiful catoic display
of falling apart.

Humans are quite like raindrops.

*djm
Daniel McDougall Sep 2015
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
Daniel McDougall Jul 2016
Indistinguishable features on the heart you once held daily make you wonder if you ever held it at all.

*djm
Daniel McDougall Jun 2016
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
Daniel McDougall Feb 2014
People are background noise. You can walk past a thousand people with a thousand different stories and then they will never cross your path again. You may notice their eyes, or their hair, or the way they walk. You might not notice anything. However, every so often, in those thousands of people you pass daily, will come a single person. A beam of sunshine. A reason to smile. A gift. These people aren't expected, nor can they be found. They find you, and once they do, that's it. Every worry you had washes away. Every fear you held is gone. Every doubt you had disappears. Don't let go of these people. Ever.

*djm
Daniel McDougall Sep 2016
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
Daniel McDougall Jun 2016
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
Daniel McDougall Sep 2015
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
Daniel McDougall Sep 2015
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
Daniel McDougall Oct 2015
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
Daniel McDougall Jun 2014
We are all ******* scared.
The ones who say they aren't,
are ******* liars.

*djm
Daniel McDougall Aug 2016
Incoherent slurs are my kind of conversation starter.

*djm
Daniel McDougall Aug 2019
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
Daniel McDougall Oct 2015
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
Daniel McDougall Aug 2016
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
Daniel McDougall Nov 2015
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
Daniel McDougall Jul 2016
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
Daniel McDougall Jun 2016
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
Daniel McDougall Aug 2016
You can chain smoke all you want as long as you don't lie. Cancer tastes better than deceit.

*djm
Daniel McDougall Sep 2015
Somedays I write poems and somedays I sing songs. Somedays I feel bliss and somedays are too long. Somedays I exercise and somedays I smoke bongs. Somedays I feel myself and somedays I feel wrong.

*djm
Daniel McDougall Nov 2016
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
Daniel McDougall Oct 2015
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
Daniel McDougall Oct 2013
Have you ever looked at someone,
and as soon as you did,
you could see yourself with them?

I'm not saying you look at them
and think they are attractive,
but you could really see yourself
with this person even though
you barely know them

If you have, do you remember it?
Do you remember that specific moment
in time?

i do

*djm
A lot of my poems relate to a girl who I was seeing, but it just didn't work how we wanted it to.
Daniel McDougall Sep 2015
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
Daniel McDougall Sep 2015
The sum total of my being has been lacking in your absence.

*djm
Daniel McDougall Jun 2016
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
Daniel McDougall Nov 2015
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
Daniel McDougall Dec 2015
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
Daniel McDougall May 2014
I remember when you first told me when your birthday was. I remember because I told myself I would never forget the date, and I didn't. Not for a long time anyway. But then you left. I started to forget the colour of your eyes, the way your laugh sounded and the faces you used to pull, but I knew I stopped loving you when I forgot your birthday.

*djm
Daniel McDougall Oct 2013
Love is a teacher
that teaches everyone,
although it's painful,
and not much fun

When we learn to lose,
we learn to live,
we learn to recover,
and we learn to give

It may take time,
maybe even years,
but soon it will pass.
You'll forget the tears

You'll learn to be
just like you were
before that person came
and make you hurt

*djm
Daniel McDougall Oct 2013
And if love was warmth,
I felt like I was in the arctic,
wearing very little,
and with very little hope.
Love can be warmth,
but then it can become
the worst kind of cold.


*djm
Daniel McDougall Aug 2016
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
Daniel McDougall Nov 2016
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
Daniel McDougall Sep 2015
No other words needed. I just miss you.

*djm
Daniel McDougall Sep 2015
Don't be surprised when the trembling hands you placed your heart in can't maintain the strength you require.

*djm
Daniel McDougall Sep 2016
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
Daniel McDougall Feb 2014
When I look at you,
I lose myself.
I lose who I was.
I lose who I am.
I feel heavy.
I feel light.
I feel breathless.
I feel dizzy.
I feel this.  
I feel us.
When I look at you,
I feel forever.

*djm
Daniel McDougall Oct 2016
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
Daniel McDougall Sep 2015
A lot of people feel that if they drag themselves around the world and see the monuments everyone keeps telling them they should see, then they will be cultured, understanding, and perhaps even find some sort of new self. What they tend to forget is that you could see the world ten times over but if you didn't change your mindset before the journey then you'll just be the same you in a prettier place. Journey inside before you journey out there.

*djm
Daniel McDougall Oct 2013
When I first saw you, the world stopped and you were all there was. I felt like angels had taken me from my darkest place and stapled my soul to the sun, because you made everything seem that much brighter. You smiled and I was overcome with a sense of awe, like that smile was made for me to admire, as if i had crafted it myself in another life so I could fall in love with it in this one.

When I last saw you, my soul was still stapled to the sun as it burst into a million pieces and sent shards of me flying across the universe never to be seen again. When I last saw you, you broke me and left me feeling more empty than when I had no one at all.

You built me, then destroyed me.

*djm
Daniel McDougall Mar 2014
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

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