Tyler Kent White > Quotes

“Never apologize for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That is how galaxies are made.”
― Tyler Kent White

“I promise if you keep searching for everything beautiful in this world, you will eventually become it.”
― Tyler Kent White

“I am thankful
for the sunrise
and every sunset
for the safety nets
that catch my falls from grace

for the family
friends
and gentle eyed strangers
that pick me up and
place me at elevations
I have never deserved

but mostly just for you
and the soft smiles you bring
when I cannot find them
on my own.”
― Tyler Kent White

“Tell me about the oceans and how they've changed in you. About lemongrass and the summer storms coming in off your shoreline. About the waters that have carved canyons in your bones.”
― Tyler Kent White

“Please understand, I am aware that I am calloused, worn, and rusted in all the parts of me that used to shine, but I still care. My God, I care. And I am trying.”
― Tyler Kent White

“Tell me about your first breath of foreign air, about the history that filled your lungs. Tell me about the memories you made in languages you can't even begin to understand.”
― Tyler Kent White

“When the lights turn low
I just want to know
that the glow you possess
will be enough
to guide me home.”
― Tyler Kent White

“I can't say I know
the burdens you bear
the struggles you face
or the fights you have fought
in learning to love yourself

I do not have the answers
the solutions
or remedies
you may be searching for

but I do have something
and though it's just one thing
I will give you all that I can

and through my kindness
I hope you will start to see
that you alone have always been
and you alone will always be
just that,
enough.
for everyone.
for everything.”
― Tyler Kent White

“I hope you still taste like my name
when the next man kisses you
that he hears it echo down his throat
and crawl across his skin

I hope he knows that you were mine
that you had forevers on your lips
that were only meant for me

I hope he feels small, mismatched
when he takes hold of your hand
that his fingers never fill the void
my own have left behind

and when he lays by your side
and whispers that he loves you
I hope my voice echoes back louder
through all the canyons
I spent nights
and mornings
carving in your sheets.”
― Tyler Kent White

“He will come with a mouth full of forevers and skin as sweet as spring time. He will kiss the places that hurt and will tell you the scars are beautiful. He will cover every inch of you in words he's learned and dress you in the colors of every season and he will not be the one. He will feel like a hurricane and you'll wonder how you will ever recover and rebuild.
But you will.
You always will.
And you'll realize he is not the one.”
― Tyler Kent White

“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 never heard
in ways that sound unlike anything
any other man has mouthed before”
― Tyler Kent White

“You are all the poetry I have written
all the words I know I've heard”
― Tyler Kent White

“Funny how my heart races
funny how my breathing paces
funny with just soft whispers
in a sea of strangers
we make love
without ever touching
two breathless bodies
in a crowded room”
― Tyler Kent White

“I know I have a heart
it aches every night
I whisper your name
and reach for you
in the empty sheets
laying beside me.”
― Tyler Kent White

“You are a world unto yourself
just waiting to be formed.”
― Tyler Kent White

“Tell me about the rains that washed and wore you down. About the travels you took to find yourself and how you left a part of you in every place, yet somehow always came back more complete.”
― Tyler Kent White

“I opened a wound in the earth
to tuck you away
and as the soil filled around you
covering the last of my dreams
I asked the roots
and the rocks
and the oceans
and the sea
to collapse around me
so I could lay by your side
one last time.”
― Tyler Kent White

“I often wonder
what type of evolution
has occurred inside the minds
of those our society has cast aside
because they couldn't afford a degree
that gave them the right to speak
or because we decided
their special needs
meant that their value was decreased

I hope I am never like the rest of them
the ones who have become so wealthy
the only ideas they can afford are their own.”
― Tyler Kent White

“May the sweet scent
hidden in these sheets
always belong to you
and the first breath
pulled from my chest
carry your name.”
― Tyler Kent White

“I have been waiting for the devil living inside of me to stop making love to all the ghosts you left behind.”
― Tyler Kent White

“This is not a poem -
this is an apology for all the times I lobbed left hooks into your skin in hopes I would never lose hold of you again.”
― Tyler Kent White

“one day
you are going to fall in love
and instead of breaking
like before

you'll find you fit perfectly
into all the fractured parts
and rusted
worn-out spots

you'll realize you are more beautiful
than you ever could have dreamed
more stunning
than you ever imagined

you see
little love
the universe always knew
just how flawless you would become
when you finally took the time
to fall in love with yourself”
― Tyler Kent White, Songs With Our Eyes Closed

“I have spent the better part of 26 years shaking the sound from my rattle coin ribs in hopes that the silence will mean more to you than the empty words I have given away far too freely.”
― Tyler Kent White

“The love we were promised in fairy tales was never something for us to find.... It has always been something for us to create.”
― Tyler Kent White

“My orphan bones are stretched thin through wasp limbs that now seem woefully inadequate to support all the pressures I have placed upon them. There are only so many nights I can confide in strangers before they all begin to wear their apologies the same.”
― Tyler Kent White

“as with any good fairytale
there are moments when
everything seems lost
and there's no possible solution
that brings the lovers
together
again

so please remember, my little love,
that while we may have our ups
and downs
tears of laughter
and bouts of
heartache

the real beauty of 'I do'
of this fairytale
the one where every chapter begins
'me and you'
is that Happily Ever After
is not where our story ends
but rather
it is where our life
together
begins”
― Tyler Kent White