corimagua

You are beautiful like demolition. Just the thought of you draws my knuckles white. I don’t need a god. I have you and your beautiful mouth, your hands holding onto me, the nails leaving unfelt wounds, your hot breath on my neck. The taste of your saliva. The darkness is ours. It’s you and me in this room, on this floor. Beyond life, beyond morality. We are gleaming animals painted in moonlit sweat glow. Our eyes turn to jewels and everything we do is an example of spontaneous perfection. I have been waiting all my life to be with you. My heart slams against my ribs when I think of the slaughtered nights I spent all over the world waiting to feel your touch. The time I annihilated while I waited like a man doing a life sentence. Now you’re here and everything we touch explodes, bursts into bloom or burns to ash. History atomizes and negates itself with our every shared breath. I need you like life needs life. I want you bad like a natural disaster. You are all I see. You are the only one I want to know.

—  Henry Rollins

I bade you farewell, wished you a journey full of blessing. Eery hour you exist, when you go to sleep and when you keep in mind the troth between us. I am waiting for you. Come safely back, come safely back.

 

-SOMALI NOMADS

Ogaden Desert, Africa, to a separated lover

Marry your best friend. I do not say that lightly. Really, truly find the strongest, happiest friendship in the person you fall in love with. Someone who speaks highly of you. Someone you can laugh with. The kind of laughs that make your belly ache, and your nose snort. The embarrassing, earnest, healing kind of laughs. Wit is important. Life is too short not to love someone who lets you be a fool with them. Make sure they are somebody who lets you cry, too. Despair will come. Find someone that you want to be there with you through those times. Most importantly, marry the one that makes passion, love, and madness combine and course through you. A love that will never dilute – even when the waters get deep, and dark.

-N’tim

“Si los desafíos que enfrentamos son solo aquellos que la vida nos otorga, vivimos la vida solamente en reacción. No nos empujamos a nosotros mismos o dirigimos nuestros destino.

 

Nuestros desafíos mas grandes deberían ser aquellos que nos damos a nosotros mismos para alcanzar nuestro máximo potencial. “

– Brendan Burchard, Author of The Charge.

It is an impossibility to convey the scope and awe seen and experienced on my journey through life. If I were to be honest in any attempt to portray in words my adventure, it would be to tell you the reader, to get up at once and act in ways you fear most. While you may feel sickness in your gut, it is here that life begins. Just over the cliff of fear is your freedom. If you wish to unshackle unbind your soul from your own prison, then act even though you fear. Make the jump. Courage is not the absence of fear, but acting despite it. I say to you who despair, live at once for the hour of death soon approaches.

– Unknown