David Alan Royster

My love rumbles like the sternum of a lion. Be mindful of the beast you stir up.

Only snails know there is no rush when you learn to carry home with you.

Trust. Above all, I ask for trust. You won’t know every thought that crosses my mind, but just know that they’re all for us.

Sometimes I feel like a kid wanting nothing more than to squeeze you tight and call you mine.

It’s important to remember where you came from; it’s the easiest way to locate where you are.

I was a poem, she was a melody, songs emerged between us.

When I told you I wasn’t in love, I lied.

He’s out his head, I’m out my mind. We got that love, the crazy kind.

Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It’s not ‘I love you’ for this or that reason, not ‘I love you if you love me.’ It’s love for no reason, love without an object.

I’m a wanderess, I’m a one night stand. Don’t belong to no city, don’t belong to no man.

She doesn’t let me have control anymore. I must’ve crossed a line, I must’ve lost my mind.

The moonlight melts into lace across your thighs. Unbridled passion, an Elliott Smith vinyl, and the intimate place of you.

You’ll never get away from the sound of the woman that loves you.

And somewhere in my time with you, the crickets emerged as birds and the blackened hills found their hue. My eyes fell on you; I didn’t watch the sun move, but I felt the world turn all night.

All we do is drive. All we do is think about the feelings that we hide.

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.

I’m searching for something that I can’t reach.

If we are simply energy, neither created or destroyed, and if a body is just a body, celestial or not, why don’t you come over here and we will make collisions out of moments.

I thought that true love was a just fairytale but I have it and it’s pretty amazing.

It’s important to remember where you came from; it’s the easiest way to locate where you are.