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The odds of being struck by lightning
Are one in 3,000
I watched from a window
As 13 people that were not me
Got struck by it
Just a few feet away
From where I was standing
And I am left thinking
About how that could have so easily
Been me
Out of curiosity
I looked up odds in a lifetime
I wanted to know
How often things happen
What came up
Consisted only of odds of dying
And I laughed
Thinking
About all of the other odds
That were more important than death
That were more interesting
Than freak accidents
And demise
How about the odds of meeting someone
With the same exact name
Or the odds
Of loving someone who loves the same stuff
As you do
The odds
Of throwing a perfect game in baseball
Are one in 18,192
The odds of finding your soulmate
Are one in 10,000
And more people are concerned
Of getting bit by a shark than finding love
The chances of that happening
Are one in 11.5 million
Sharks are not the enemy
We are
If you ask me
I would say
I'd much rather focus
On the rare positives
There are good things that happen daily
That happen unexpectedly
It is better to hope for those
Than worry about ones unlikely
You can measure the past
All you want
Give it numbers
And try predict future
But one thing you cannot do
Is measure life.
 Jul 2014 Jeremy Duff
tc
heart
 Jul 2014 Jeremy Duff
tc
there is a        train track
 running thro  ugh my veins
  and you’re on a journey with a
  one-way ticket to my heart;
  once you reach it, i’m ne
 ver letting you go, ev
  en if you venture h
    ome, your essen
    ce will linger
    beneath my
    skin

    but

i’m okay with that, because i’d rather the traces of you be buried in my molecules than anyone else
 Jul 2014 Jeremy Duff
tc
02:29am
 Jul 2014 Jeremy Duff
tc
kiss me goodnight
for i want to hold your hand like gravity holds my feet on the gr
i want to worship your body like i've been waiting a thousand years just to be in the same bed as you
i promise
i'll sew my lips shut so i can't confess my love for the hundreth time
but i'll say it ninety nine times whilst i still can
i love you
they say perfection doesn't exist, but they haven't met you
 Jul 2014 Jeremy Duff
Carolin
Take me to the ocean and
kiss me under the waves.
Watch me put shells in my
hair just like pretty mermaids.
We can watch the sunset as
you braid my brown hair.
Then curl our toes into the
wet sand as we stand hand
in hand. Collect the shells
with me and whisper your
wishes to them before you
throw them back in the sea.
Hold me in arms so you can
be close to me. Rest your lovely
bones over mine. I want to feel
a fire take place inside. Tell me
those words that light me up like
one of your favorite afternoon cigarettes .
I'll promise to inhale
the smoke you'll exhale. The
words
of I love you I love you taste
better than my cocktail. You
make me life drunk just like
the characters that
exist in fairy tales* ~
 Jul 2014 Jeremy Duff
Tark Wain
wind blows
and then it doesn't
you can't really anticipate it
it just happens
Love is blind, blurry vision of lovely illusions
Breaking chains of the heartbreaks and heartaches
Smiling through genuine happiness, and not sadness
Mask of truer happiness, and not of fake smiles
I wanna travel the world with you - reach the depths of your heart
And make the corners of your garden of eden smell sinful; ***
I wanna make sure that my touch is the only one that makes your soul wanna move out your body. Echo my name in the streets of the great grey matter and make sure that I'm forever. Let's make the heavens shake with this love. it might **** us, but trust me, it's all worth it. It's more than a thrill. It's more than a fling, it's US.

By: @OfentseTsie & @_Dvniel
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