David Alan Royster

I’m only ever in two places – with you or on the way.

Crack me open and get drunk on the contents of my spirit. Warning: consuming too much may have permanent effects.

Women should serve men. Men should serve women. Any house of peace is full of servants.

They are different now than they were. My mother never had to say she was a queen to be one. I instinctively knew. So it makes sense now that I am sorely confused by the women who try to convince me with words.

There’s nothing more romantic than getting down in the dirt and plowing through the weeds, brambles, thickets, and dry land of life with someone just as willing by your side.

It’s amazing what passes for love these days – crows parading as blue jays.

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

I don’t care too much for money, money can’t buy me love.

When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms.

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.

Men make love more intensely at 20, but make love better, however, at 30.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

I don’t feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unless there’s something that I really did do. I believe I’m just ordinary. And I’d like for people to think of me that way, as just a guy that tried. Wanted to be loved by other people because he loved people.

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

I’m not something to butter up and taste when you get bored.

If your love is not as strong as a tidal wave, I will not be moved.

When you fall in love, you wanna share it with people but you know there are some things that you need to keep to yourself, ’cause privacy makes things last longer, I feel.

Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each other but choose to live with each other.

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.

When we know love matters more than anything, and we know that nothing else REALLY matters, we move into the state of surrender. Surrender does not diminish our power, it enhances it.

You don’t measure love in time. You measure love in transformation. Sometimes the longest connections yield little growth, while the briefest of encounters change everything. The heart doesn’t wear a watch.