Tyler Kent White

When I am old, weather-worn, and grey, I want to fill my lungs with your perfume and hear your laughter echo through our home as we dance alone in our living room, drunk off wine, still madly in love.

This morning I woke with my ear pressed between shoulder blades. Every inhale, every drum, every pump, thump of your heartbeat said one thing – home, home, home.

The universe, at any given point, in any given time, is expanding indefinitely in all directions. So trust me when I say, ‘you are the center of mine.’

One day I will kiss you, kiss you with lips that understand, kiss you with lips that can better explain, that can speak in so many languages. They will know how to say I love you in ways you have never heard, in ways that sound unlike anything any other man has mouthed before, false promises and fairy tales they did not ever believe in. One day I will kiss you, pressed words between your lips. I will kiss you and they will rattle between your teeth, run down your throat, and fill your lungs. They will echo against your ribs, they will reverberate through your limbs, they will dress every corner you’ve kept sadness hidden away until all that grows inside of you is the understanding that you are enough. One day I will tell you all about my paper napkin theories, algorithms I formed that demonstrate how the sum of all that you are, is greater than infinity, but to me you have always been the one.

You be the clouds above, I’ll be the grass below, and everything in between will be where our love will grow.

To me, you’ll always be the rising suns, the sinking moons, and all the stars that come between the sound of rain and river stones, the warmth of my sheets, the ache in my bones.

People who are capable of and fit for freedom liberate themselves from physical thralldom by substituting mind for muscle.

We may appear to be mean, but we’re really only frightened.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Life is a marathon, it’s not a sprint.

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

Forgiveness is just another name for freedom.

It isn’t true that you live only once. You only die once. You live lots of times if you know how.

I know that god is real. I have seen him smile through the sunlight as it dances across your skin and lays gently at your feet.

Leaders inspire. They aren’t assigned leadership. They command it.

Like all things vast and beautiful, I want to know the depths of which you exist. It has never been enough to wade in the shallows.

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

We must speak our minds openly, debate our disagreements honestly, but always pursue solidarity.

Dr. Strauss says I should rite down what I think and remembir and every thing that happins to me from now on..

“You should know our mania for building is stronger than ever. It is a diabolical thing. It consumes money and the more you build, the more you want to build. It’s a sickness like being addicted to alcohol.

Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.