I have songs within me
The words come here and there
As I go about my days
I feel connected to them
I feel there are things I want to share

It's as if my torso is a cabinet or a safe
Shut, locked
But full of words unorganizedly stacked
Making noise if I move
And if I open the door and tip
Tons of words will come spilling out

As I looked into those baby blue eyes
I could feel that she was my Angel in
Disguise and as I looked I could see
and feel her soul crying out to me
saying 'where have you been my love,'
'we finally meet again' and 'this time I
need you to stay so that we may begin
again and love me and be there when
I need a hand to hold and someone to
keep me warm from the cold.'

'I will never leave you again,' I said to
her, 'and as long as you love me I will
be at your side and know that my love
is true and if you are with me,'  'I'll try
to make sure that you are never blue.

'We can grow together' I said to her
and 'my love will always surround
you and it will be so much fun to take
away your pain and replace the hurt
with my love and watch you fly like
a dove.'

The magic that we have found will
never run aground because it is so
strong and with very little work it can't
go wrong as these brown eyes are
swelling with tears as I try to ease her
fears, taking away her pain while
letting her know that this time our
love and our time together will last.

'So after all those years' I said to her
'there won't be anymore tears except
those of joy and no more fears and I
have decided that for me there will be
no more cries because I found My
Angel in Disguise.
                                                       ­ Jon York    2018

You can't expect
that taking away one part of yourself
will not affect
the rest of you.
Who you are
will change.
Some parts will be better.
Some worse.
There is a cost to recovery,
also new discoveries.
Become your true self.