“… Love is the right to say: I do and I do and I do... and I do want us to see every tulip we’ve planted come up spring after spring, a hundred more years of dinners cooked over a shared glass of wine, and a thousand more movies in bed. I do until our eyes become voices speaking without speaking, until like a cloud meshed into a cloud, there’s no more you, me—our names useless. I do want you to be the last face I see—your breath my last breath, I do, I do and will and will for those who still can’t vow it yet, but know love’s exact reason as much as they know how a sail keeps the wind without breaking, or how roots dig a way into the earth, or how the stars open their eyes to the night, or how a vine becomes one with the wall it loves, or how, when I hold you, you are rain in my hands.” An excerpt from ‘Until We Could,’ 2014 by Richard Blanco 📸 martintadashi #richardblanco #martinsbedtimestories #gaybedtime #gaymarriage #equality #soulmates #gaysoulmate