He pressed his lips to mine in a soft kiss and just waited. I could feel his heart beating beneath
his shirt, under his skin. He turned his face to the side and rested his scruffy cheek on mine. We sat there for ever so long, both of us taking in the warm glow of the other. Finally, he reached out his hand to smooth my hair and he let it rest on the back of my neck, a gentle but affirmative action, claiming the moment for us both. I thought I heard him sigh but my heart was racing so fast, I could hardly catch my breath and yet I was suspended in that moment in time, frozen between heartbeats, watching my life go by in glimpses of what had been, coupled with flashes of what was yet to be. "I love you", he said. "I love you, too."
“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.”
