No one
  is sent by accident
          to anyone
               and
      sometimes the
         two  people
           who are
   best for each other
        will have to
face greater obstacles
          in order to
    be with each other.

           There is no
      need  to  rush, if
         something is
   meant  to  be,  it will
            happen, in
    the right time with
              the right
    person for the best
               reason.

        When it's time
      for  two  souls  to
        meet, there's
    nothing  on  earth
 that   can  prevent  them
        from meeting,
    no   matter   where 
         each  may be
             located.
                                                        ­                                    Jon York   2019

You walked
        through the doors,
              your head
     tilted  down, perhaps
            scared to look
     at  my  face  for fear  of  
                  what you
        might  see  after  such
            a long 54 years of
                 being apart.

           A length of time
    that would bring anyone
                   to tears.

                 I looked at
          you trembling as you
              stood  before  me
                   and I said,
           "do you know why
   after all this time I am still here?"

            "Because when
         love  is  true,  it  waits."
                   "You are
            the  moon  of  my  life.
               guide me home."

                    And when
              we got there we
        slipped  into  an  intimacy
                       from
                   which we
                       never
                   recovered.
                                  ­                                                    Jon York  2019

There is no remedy for love,
        but to have more.
                                                                                           Jon York   2019

Sometimes hard.
Fast and rough.

Sometimes deep.
Slow and gentle.
                                                                                         Jon York   2019

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

When  you

    love   someone,

    you don't give

     up.  EVER
                                                                                           Jon York   2019

I began to work on your lips,
     as if drawing *** from a well of longing
                     and need. Then heated
            tongues  met  in  the midst of hot
                   and quickening breath.
          And quickly we drank the wine
                            of our lusts.
             Then intoxicated with those
      spirits, our clothes found resting place
              on the floor, piece by piece,
          until there was no hiding places,
    for the two glistening and wanting bodies
                 as hunger revealed in this
                               hot moment.
           Then skin meshed with skin as
the floor became the stage and I moved
           atop you with ease and gently
   I  lowered myself down, kissing you as
               I filled you and your gasp
                         broke our kiss.
        I stroked your forehead as our slow
rhythm gave way to urgent and demanding
                   thrusts of passion.
     You arched your body for my comfort
and I threw you into esctasy with the strength
                 of my blows and I left you
     screaming and soaked, in oblivion again
                and again. The taste of your
       skin between my lips, was like no other.
                   To hear your cry of mercy
          when my teeth met your  warm  skin,
   was  more  breathtaking  than  you  knew,
               leaving  our  screams  to  echo                       Jon York   2019
          on  like  battle cries.  You  welcomed
the weight of my body to crush you as I collapsed
             on top of you, still hot and burning
       and you glowing like  an  ember casting a
welcome  light should  I  seek  your  gifts  again.

I reached for you like the
branch of a tree reaching
for the sun and like the
sun you surrounded me
with warmth and love.

And like the sun your
shine so bright and like
the tree I grew in your
direction able to feel
the love that you were
sending.

In that growth I was able
to feel the changes that
were taking place in my
life and being, from the
love that I was receiving.

You filled my life with
love and showed me how
to give love as well as
how to receive love and
grow.

Now we grow together
as one knowing that we
cannot and will not ever
be undone knowing that
we are changed forever
and we never have to
look back at what we
left behind ever.
                                   Jon York    2018

And then my
  soul saw you
  and it kind of
went "Oh, there
  you are, I've
   been looking
       for you."
                                                                                              Jon York   2019

Love is what I feel                 Let those                         Love is
but can't define,                          who                         an ancient
          for                                    always  ­                          story
    definition                   ­            loved                                 yet,
would make it                            now                                ­ it is
       less.                                       love                             ever new.
                                               the more.

Time is too slow for those                                            Love            ­    
who wait. too swift for those                                    spends                  ­  
who fear, too long for those                                          all            
who grieve, too short for those                                and still        
who rejoice, but for those                                           hath                
who love, time is not.                                                 store.       Jon York
                                                            ­                                                 2017
Love is like the measles               The                     Time makes
you can't have it bad                heart                          all but
but once, and the later         that loves                     true love
in life you have it the                 is                                 old.
tougher it goes with           always young.
you.                                                      ­                                  Love
                          ­                   Love is something                  looks not
I can bear to die--                              eternal-                 with the eyes
I cannot bear to                  the aspect may change          but with
    leave her.                          but not the essence.              the mind.

I imbued my  soul into  that of

your  own while  we  spoke  in

love  suffused  whispers as our

heartbeats sang a song of reverence

as  a  sinuous rhythm of  shared

breaths  filled   our   lungs.


Anchored  deeply in  your  writhing

tides,  I forged  for  our inner sanctum;

the sacred place where  you cradled

me  within, meeting  each  other in

total  completeness, where  your

desire  sodden  core  breathed  the

words  "welcome home",  to   my

very  own,  I  then  settled  in ;  our

bodies  spilling  forth  into  a  white

lathered  fountain  of   one.
                                                                                       Jon York   2019

You  sway  left,
I flicker  right,
mirror images of
a divine eternal
flame.

Somehow,
each lengthening
night  mirrors the  
boldness of your
captivating spirit.

That  prison  of  
impossibility glittered
with flecks of crossed
stars.

Centered and still
we will become one,
finally bridging the
divide of the
confounding illusions
of space and time.
                                                           ­                                 Jon York    2021

I might be having a bad day, but at least
I am having a day when for so many this
day is their last day in their journey of life
and life is like an ocean, it can be calm,
still, rough and rigid but in the end it is
all beautiful and the best thing you can
do is to believe in yourself.

Take it day by day and be grateful for
every breath that you take and realize
that you are not a product of your
circumstances but a product of your
decisions and recognize that along the
way of your journey that sometimes
you must fight a battle more than once
to win it.

Have the courage to embrace dreams
and the strength to sacrifice for them
and the determination to fulfill them
and don't wait around to do it because
life goes by us so much faster than you
think and in the end we are all just
human and that should be enough.

Learn quickly that you alone are
responsible for the quality of your life
and when you decide that your life is
your own that is when your life really
begins so decide what you want and
decide that there is no better time than
right now to get it no matter where
you are in the years of your life.

Nothing haunts us more than the
things we didn't say or the things that
we should have done but Hell is something
that you carry around with you, not
somewhere to go and sometimes we
survive by forgetting what we should
have said or done and find that courage
is that quiet voice at the end of the day
saying, "I will try again tomorrow".
                                                      ­                        Jon York     2018

I've come to a
         point  in  my  life
           where I need a
           stronger  word
               than ****.
                                                                            Jon York   2019

Tell me your                                                       Our
               story                                                     worlds collided
     and start from the                                                and in
           beginning.                                                         an
      Start from where                                               instant
              you felt                                                     your ocean
      unloved and tell  me                                           had
           all the things                                            color because
              you're                                                           of my
        afraid to admit.                                                   sky.

  Tell me what you want                                     I have been
        most in the world.                               waiting for you just as
         I want to know                                      long as you have
                what                                               been waiting for me.
           makes you                                             I FOUND YOU.
              happy.                                               I WILL KEEP YOU.
                                                                       I WILL LIVE FOR YOU.
                    I                                                    a woman like you
          want to make                                             comes once
             you happy                                                    in a
                again.                                                   lifetime and
                                                                            we will teach
Let me love you.                                                each other                                
         Let your heart want me                              how to                
               Let's find out what happens                  love
                     when your're not afraid.                 again.

We have forgotten... True love, true friendship, is being able to crumble in each other's arms. We need each other's storms.
                                                                                             Jon York  2019

Stop Thinking So Much,
          You Are Breaking
           Your Own Heart.
                                       Jon York    2019


                                        



      3 word short story

             I'll Never
               Forget.
                                         Jon York    2019

I am not sure of
       anything.
  But I  am  certain
     that I love you
      with a depth
    that stars cannot
       understand.
                                                                                           Jon York   2019

Sometimes your only available
transportation is a leap of faith.
                                                                                          Jon York   2019

Everything changes in an instant.

Not sure if I need ***, sleep, or to
punch someone in the face.

I  have  to be stronger  than  my excuses
and I have to hold myself accountable,
stay committed and never give  up.

I  have  to start with who I am,  use
what I  have, and do what I  can.

The man who is a master of patience
is master of everything else.

I must find the fighter in myself and
realize the fact that if I'm not where
I want to be, that should be enough
motivation.

A wise man once said nothing.

I must make a conscious effort to hear
no  ****, to speak no  ****, and to  take
no ****. Life is what you make of it,
not what you think of it.
                                                                                             Jon York   2024

"When  you  do  not  seek or
need  approval  you  are  at  
your  most  powerful."
          ­         Caroline Myss

To   love  oneself   is  hard
work, but it becomes harder
when you realize that you're
actually  required  to  love
multiple versions of yourself
that show up without warning
throughout  the day, throughout
the week, throughout the month,
throughout your life.

Refine, deepen, and invigorate
your love for all of yourselves.

It  may  be  hard  work, but  it
will also  be  fun  and exhilarating.

                                                  ­                                        Jon York   2022

Home isn't a place,
         it's you.
                                                                                            Jon York   2019

I'm so old that

"getting lucky"

      means

                                     I found my car

                                     in the parking lot.


I.m so old that

my  back  goes

out more than

I do.
                                                             ­                                 Jon York   2019

I
   crave
    you
    with
       a
  love so
    deep
  that the
   ocean
would be
   jealous,
     and
      as
    your
   curves
  run like
  waves,
      if
    love
   could
     save
     you,
    you
would
   live
forever.                                                                         Jon  York   2019

I
  spend
     too
   many
   hours
      in
     my
    head,
wondering
  whether
       I
    spend
   nearly
       as
    many
        in
     your
     head.

       In
     your
hesitation
        I
   found
      my
  answer.
We are all just fighting to survive a world where "I miss you" doesn't mean I'm coming back and "I love you" doesn't mean I'm here to stay and "I' changed my mind" means you lied on purpose and just didn't want to say you lied so you said "I changed my mind." Why is it when the story ends we begin to feel all of it"?  
                                                          ­                               Jon York   2019

I want  to  kiss you
in   all   the  places
your   pulse   beats
beneath  your skin.
I want my fingertips
to  trace  your  neck
as  I  slowly breathe
you in.
I  want   your  kisses
on  every inch of me
so  that   your   lips
leave me with stains.
I'll press   my  body
against   yours  and
feel  the  blood  rush
through  your  veins.
You found parts of me
I didn't know existed
and  in  you  I  found
a  love   I  no  longer
believed   was   real.
Love is a commitment
to  protecting  another
person's   heart  with
the same  passion you
use to  guard your own.                                                                          
                                                                                     Jon York   2019

Remember
              when
         "ENTER "was
                   a
             sign on
                   a
            door and
                  not
                   a
               button
                  on a
             computer?


               Have
        the  courage  to
              stand
        for something.

            Do not be
        content  to  wait
               and see
        what  will  happen
             but have
        the determination
             to make
      the right things
              happen.
                                                                                 Jon York   2019

Your  hands  can build  up
and tear  down  what  was
built  but  as these  hands
caress the contours of your
body,

desire  is  built  and  fear is
tore  down . It  is said  that
the  tongue  can  breed
division.   As  my  tongue
divides  you,  my  mind is
drawn  to  togetherness.

The taste of your acceptance
quenches a thirst only
known to solitary men.

Gentle   sighs   and  deep
moans  spark  a  hardened  
conviction  to  please you.  

Your physicality and sexuality
take me to heights beyond
measure, but as I drift back
to Earth and rest quietly in
your arms, it's the whispered
words of two souls speaking
that moves me.
                                                                                        Jon York   2019

I know that you are beautiful  when
you  lose  yourself  on  the beach, in
the sand. You were so gentle when I
held you, so many years ago, when
we were so very  young and in love,
a feeling so good, nothing  could be
wrong.

You were beautiful even as a demon
ripping into me to eat my heart, you're
baby blues made it all better. I drowned
in my love for you from the start.

We  burned  brighter  than  any other
lover I knew and you stole pieces of me
I'll never get back.

I left part of my soul locked  in  a  
cell with  your  sanity and they'll  dance  
forever  as we fade from this earth in
this lifetime.

Remember  me,  beautiful  devil...
You will always be my broken angel,
my body is here but my heart is with you,
aching for just one more taste.
                                                          ­                                   Jon York   2021

I have to
        love
     whatever
       is left
     of myself
    and find it
        in me
       to start
       all over
         again
          and
       it hurts
      the  way
       it hurts
       because
       I don't
       know a
        softer
        way to
         bleed.
                                                                                              Jon York   2019

I want  to  be
your favorite
place   to  go
when  you've
had    a   bad
day or a good
     day.
                                                                                       Jon York   2019

Think
         only the best,
                work
            for only the
                  best,
           and expect
              only the
                   best.

                 Forget
            the mistakes
                  of  the
                   past
              and press
               on to the
                  greater
             achievements
                   of the
                   future.

Live in the faith that the whole world is on your side so long as you are true to the best that is in you.
                                                                                            Jon York   2019

Your mind
                 has  aroused
                         me
                    in  ways
              that harden my
                     acumen
                   and  makes
                         my
                     intellect
                       throb.

                         How
                    I  want  to
                     penetrate
                        that
                     psyche of
                        yours
                          and
                        ******
                 deeply inside
                         your
                    mind  and
                          find
                           that
                     spot  inside
                        you that
                         makes
                 your soul quiver
                     and writhe.
                                                                                           Jon York   2019

Writers   just  write   the  words.

Readers  decide what  the words
mean and how they are  affected
by those words  and if the poem
is about them or directed to them
personally.

Events  and  or  interactions  with
various people are the basis for my
writing.

I am just trying to leave something
behind.
                                                                                              Jon York   2022

Don't try relentlessly to understand because only time
itself will decide and there really is no reason to be sad,
because it is written for you: your joy, my joy, our joy
together, will come when it is time.

I barely remember the first time that we met but I
distinctly remember when you said hello and it was a
voice that sounded love to me and I didn't know that
love could be this way, my food and my drink, the sun
all day, my dreams at night, and my thoughts all day,
everyday.

Her love is in my words when I write my poetry,in my
tears that I cry because we are apart and in my tears
when I think about all of those missed years when we
could have been together but chance and circumstance
chose otherwise and my sadness I can not disguise but
what we have the now is special even thought apart.

As I read her letters to me I realize it won't be too very
long before we will both can make a new start and I am
learning now that the many years away did not fade
my memories of the lines of our dialogue nor make
vague the dates and places that we used hide to kiss
and touch and discover each others skin and lips

My hands still remember all of the contours of her body
and I can clearly feel her touch when we were so young
and I am glad that we were like singing birds free to fly
away in search of other songs but eager to return to one
another because we both had a dream of love and we
now look for that dream in hidden places of the future
an in secret places of our hearts.  
                                                                ­                   Jon York   2018

the most painful tears are not
the ones that fall from our eyes
and cover  your  face.
It's   the  ones that  fall  from
your heart and cover your soul.
                                                                                           Jon York   2019

If your path
      is more difficult, it's
      because your calling
               is higher.
                                                                                                 Jon York   2019

One life on this earth is all we get whether it is enough
or not enough but all  I want kisses is from you without
question marks and if at some point one lingers I want the passion we share to make the question marks stand at attention, straighten their backs and transform themselves back into exclamation marks locking themselves to our lips.

The obvious conclusion would seem to be that at the very least we are fools if we do not live it as fully and bravely and beautifully as we can and try to embrace what is so evident.

Sometimes in life you must look through the barriers to see the beauty and you must look beyond the walls to the heart waiting
on the other side, and forget all the reasons and all the voices telling you to stop.

Look through the pain, the heartache or the waiting and see, and for the first time see all that lies beyond and just embrace it.

When the cold wind blows, I will close my eyes, calmly  knowing
I am anchored to you and because of you I feel myself slowly but surely becoming the me I have always dreamed of being and I embrace it.

I hope with quiet sincerity that the final words that ever leave these lips of mine will always be, "I love you."

                                                          ­                               Jon York   2018

Miss somebody?                    Call
Wanna meet up?                    Invite
Wanna be understood?         Explain
Have questions?                     Ask
Don't like something?           Say it
Want something?                   Ask For it
Love someone?                       Tell Them

Watch your THOUGHTS, for

they  become WORDS, watch

your   WORDS,  they  become

ACTIONS, watch  your ACTIONS,

they  become  HABITS,  watch
  
your  HABITS,   they   become

your  CHARACTER,  watch you
r
CHARACTER , for  it  becomes

               your DESTINY.

KNOW THAT  A  DIFFERENT  VERSION  OF YOU EXISTS IN THE MINDS OF EVERYONE WHO KNOWS YOU.
                                                            ­                                 Jon York  2018

Truth is. . . .
I am insane but my intentions are gold and my heart is pure...
you never get too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream....
my path requires validation from nobody....
I just want to drink coffee, save animals and sleep.
sometimes it takes a good fall to know where you really stand....
you should not rip yourself into pieces to keep others whole....

Truth is. . . .
everyone is going to hurt you so you just have to find the one who's
                                                                                                 worth the pain....
doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will....
worry is a misuse of  your imagination...
you do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do....

Truth is
I have learned to see beauty and goodness everywhere and know and
                                                        know that the real joy of life is to love....
the bad news is you cannot make people like, love, understand,  
        validate, accept or be nice to you and you cannot control them
                                                   either, the good news is it doesn't matter....
it takes sadness to know what happiness is, noise to appreciate silence,
                                                                             absence to value presence....
if you continuously compete with others you become bitter but if you
                        continuously compete with yourself, you become better....

Truth is. . .
you have the power to change your life at any given moment and never
                                                                                                        forget that....
the future can be better than the present and you have the power to
                                                                                                         make it so....
                                                                            Jon York    2016

She touched me
and it felt

        as if

the stars were
dancing across


              my skin.
                                                           ­                                    Jon York   2019

The biggest lesson I've learned
this year
is that no one is really your friend
or truly loves you
until they've seen every dark
shadow inside of you

and stayed.

Not everyone gets
the same version of me.
One person might tell you I'm
an amazing beautiful soul,
another person will say I'm a
cold - heart ted ******* - believe
them both. I act accordingly.

No one is more hated than he who
speaks the truth, and if you want to
come into my life, the door is open,
you want to get out of my life, the door
is open. Just one request... Don't stand
in the door, you're blocking the traffic.
                                                        ­                     Jon York 2018

The  key  to
        being happy
     is  knowing  you
            have the
      power to choose
       what to accept
            and what
              to let go.

               If you
         realized how
     powerful   your
  thoughts  are  you'd
          never think
      another negative
               thought
                 again.

           Be mindful
                of your
          self-talk. It's a
           conversation
              with the
              universe.
                                        ­                                                Jon York   2019

Love is an
      ancient story yet it is ever
         new and when love
                 is at its best,
          one loves so much that
             he cannot forget.

                   True love
     is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.
              He is not a lover
      who does not love forever.
                     Love is so
         divine  that  description
              would make it less.

                 Love  is  what
                      you feel
               but can't define,    
        it is what you know and
                 can  only  hope
                   to express
            to  her  for  the rest
                    of eternity.

                      Youth is
                  but  an  hour,
               beauty   a   flower,
                     but love
          is the jewel that wins
                    the world.
               Age  enriches true
                       love like
                    noble   wine.
                                                                                                 Jon York   2019

Let your process of being you
help others in their process of
being themselves.

Learn to  like living and know
that just to be alive  is a  grand
thing.

Love  to love, love  to  be loved
but  never  forget  your  own
insignificance.

Seek joy  in the saddest  places,
and  pursue  beauty to  its  lair.

Never simplify what is complicated
or  complicate  what  is  simple.
                                                                                                 Jon York   2022

When you see something
beautiful in someone, tell them.
It only takes a second to say,
but for them it could last a lifetime.

If only our eyes saw souls
       instead of  bodies,
how very different our ideals
     of beauty would be.

My story is filled with
broken pieces, terrible choices,
an ugly war and terrible
disrespect upon returning
and then a horrible head injury
in an automobile crash
       and ugly truths.
   It's also filled with major
comebacks, piece  in  my  soul
and  a  grace  that  saved  my  life.

If I ever tell you about my past,
it's NEVER because I want you
to feel sorry for me, but so you can
  understand why and who I am.                                   Jon York   2021

I am your poet,
          you are my poetry.

         You  are   my
         daydream, I am
         your reason to dream.  

          I am your escape,
         you are my wings.

           I am your refuge,
          you are my storm.

          We are the remedy
           for each  other's
           brokenness, and
          we heal each others's
         wounds.

           Our   togetherness  
           sings  a   beautiful
           melody only known  
           to  us   as   we  bring
           happiness  to each
           other and a promise  
            of a new beginning.

           At our age, we  only
           need to be interested
           in consistency, stability,
           respect and loyalty
           and touching each
           other, holding on to
           each other until it's over.
                                                           ­                                Jon York   2020

Two  things  to
remember  in   life.

Take   care  of  your
  thoughts   when
  you   are   alone.

And  take   care   of
your   words  when
you are with people.
                                                         ­                             Jon York   2019

Nothing
        determines who
             you will
       become so much
    as  those  things  you
      choose  to  ignore.
         Not everyday
             is a good
      day, live anyway.
           Not all of
      those people you
           love will
   love you back,  love
              anyway.
  Not  all actions  are  fair,
      play fair anyway.
            Not all of
     your relationships
              will be
       truthful  to  you,
  be truthful with them
              anyway.
  Not all of your so called
              "friends"
    will be there for you
              when you
    needed them the worst  
                    to be,
         be there for them
                anyway.
                                                                                              Jon York  2019

Maybe  if  we  tell  people  the
           brain  is an  APP,

        they will star using it.

It's okay if people don't like you,

most people don't even like
                themselves.

                               ­                                                        Jon York    2019

She doesn't say
"I love you"
      like a
     normal
     person.
     Instead,
  she'll laugh,
shake her head,
      give you
    a little smile,
       and say,
"you're an idiot"
       if she tells
            you
   you're an idiot,
          you're
               a
       lucky man.
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            Take a
             lover
              who
             looks
             at you
                like
             maybe
             you are
              magic.
                                                                                       Jon York   2019