Saying goodbye
To someone you love
Is like reading the final page
Of an amazing book.

As the last chapter ends
You begin to notice
Just how beautiful
And perfect
The plot always was.  

You appreciate the joy
And even the pain
As you read and thumb
Through every page.

Finally understanding
The moral of the story,
You realize you've reached
The end of this journey.

Although the last sentence  
Is the most difficult to read
Another great book awaits
Once you turn the final page.

Eventually you may stumble
Upon yet another great find.
Or maybe you'll return
To the book you left behind.

You may just discover
Once all is said and done
That this particular book  
Was your favorite story
All along.

Can you move on from what
you are to what you need to
become and can you re-define
winning, embrace the
unexpected, help everyone go
further faster, accept change
and accelerate growth, and if
you can complete all or most
of the above, you have a good
start on the next chapter of
your life.

Tomorrow belongs to the fast,
and to those who can last, and
the winners and the losers will
be decided by how quickly we
can adapt to change as we get
old, and as we are watching
the world going by us  if we
are able to rediscover the
seemingly lost art of human
interaction, than we will have
good traction while writing
our new chapter.

While writing that next chapter
remember that there is no love
without forgiveness and no
forgiveness without love, so say
to yourself, I want to shine
before I die, and you just might.
                                                    Jon York    2017

now that poetry is carved into my skin
I got nothing to lose in this rain
writing on a white screen
soon I'll be able to pick up a pen
and write on a white piece of paper

I threw away years worth
poems and writing

now I see it's stuck inside me
there is no way out
it's a part of me now

maybe not in a journal
at least it's somewhere

Okay
So you never asked
I dont know if that means you don't want to know,
But it was when we were watching that weird science fiction movie in the theatre.
You tucked you hair behind your ear
And as usual I had tunnel vision on you.
But my stomach dropped
And i knew in that moment while you were focused and smiling
I knew that i was in love with you
I knew that i wanted to make this become something
I knew you were different
I never looked for it to come into my life
I never wished upon a star
I never pulled apart daisies
Love me or love me not
I am so absoluty stunned and without a doubt in love with you

My heart wanders but does not know
It does not know what is about to take hold
It does not know you are around the corner bend
And when I meet you that you will beg to get in
My heart suffers heartache from the last
And my worst fear is that your love won't last
And when a liquid like my blood gets warm, will it turn to gas?
Ill float from the warmth of my heart beat and between every beat i feel you with me.
So even now while you doubt on this
I'm trying to get down to the earth abyss
Because for once im not falling for you
I'm not grasping on floor
I'm just trying to let you know
Since we met i open the doors of my heart
And I'm not sure what reaction is because pain and beauty and so relatively close
I'm not scared to let you close
Im scared because I'm easily left
And even I would run
So I guess this is more of a thank you
This is a way of saying I feel a little more sane
I feel like someone cares
And i can dare to be brave
I can dare to show you I'm worth what i say.

An innocent born into darkness,
A life unknown to be so graceless.
A world without colour,
This life like no other.

Below the depths of this flesh,
A girl lives craving new breath.
Stolen was her beating heart,
Given to loneliness, consumed as a withered spark.

The biggest dreams swim in her mind,
The longest amount of time goes by.
A slave to abuse, a slave to misery.
Will she escape from the chains to find victory?

Fortitude is what she seeks,
Peace and love is what she needs.
A life ready to begin and restart,
Her life ready to fight her way through the dark.

A journey has started, her journey awaits.
An adventure she'll recall,
has her saving grace.

“Arise” she screams,
“Arise and be...”
“Arise and be all that you dreamed!”

I write this with little force,

Autocorrect guiding my words;

Inhalers keeping this curse at bay,

Blades making blood flow.

I think of now with little hope,

Without a saving grace;

I think of now, a pitch-black room

With no one there but my demons.

Flurry of words seem to gush out of me,

As I hyperventilate;

Grief grows larger as they don't notice,

As these fingers grow numb.

I don't know how much I'll last,

Might as well collapse,

No matter how much I say I'll die,

I'll just live some time again.

But now it's worse.

You who goes by "Lonely"
Yes you, who reads these rhymes
Please pause here for a moment
I won't take much of your time

You see my friend, I'm lonely too
In the dark with paper and pen
So I'm writing you this poem
and signing it "Your Friend"

Though I'll prob'ly never see you
nor ever know your name
I do not need to see your face
nor know your cash and fame

I do not care what color you are
how short or tall or fat
I'm weary of all these parties and creeds
So, for a moment, forget all of that

Yes you, dear friend, forget with me
Inhale this moment serene
where we are not opinions or castes
Just two humans with two glowing screens

Be human with me, simple and pure
For a moment breathe deep and feel free
then should you have the time, and a halfway good rhyme
Perhaps write a poem for me.

Signed,
Your Friend