Just when
the  
caterpillar
  thought
his world
    was
over, he
became a
butterfly.
      We
  live on
       a
blue planet
     that
   circles
around a
   ball of
fire next to
  the moon
that moves
       the
oceans, and
  you still
     don't
   believe
       in
   miracles?
                                                                                     Jon York   2019

Where have you been hiding my
love,as each day without you will
never come again as I have sought
you for so long that you surely
must feel the pulsing of my endless
longing and I have sought you
since childhood and I care not whose
you were or even whose you are
because the sound of your voice
and your words tell me that you
are mine and that you are waiting.

Till now my life has been but a fools
mission as they mock the madness
of my searching, my work, my
talents are but ashes,my poetry
only unshed tears that flow like
rivers in my desperate search for
you.

I wait in hope and sorrow thinking
and hoping that you will come to
me some tomorrow and connect our
souls just one more time after what
seems like several lifetimes, or is it
all a dream, but you need to know
that I have bravery to spend on pain,
faith to wall up fear, and courage
to fight danger when it comes, but
there is no defense against loneliness,
but my love shall always be because
when I love, I love with my heart,
I love with everything in me, and
I love deeply and you hold my
heart in your hands,so please handle
it with care.

You are my mortal muse, the one
to inspire my heart, move my soul
and take my mind away to
destinations unknown and you
open my eyes to a reality not seen
and you awaken the creativity that
burns inside of me.
                                        Jon York    2017

In my history
                 of  education,  the
                         greatest
          teachers I ever experienced
                      were those
                    who  showed
                me  where  to  look,
                       but didn't
                 tell me what to see
                       and what
                  I saw  was people
               who  I  thought  were
           created to be loved and things
                   that I was taught to
              believe,  were created to
                            be used
               had it completely turned
           around, which may be the
                  reason the world
                  is  in  chaos  today,
                   ­          Things
                       are being loved
                        and people
                                are
                           being used.
                                                           ­                                 Jon York   2019

My eyes
            could fill her
                  with
             desire, my
                   lips
              could set
      fire to her passion,
                and my
           tongue could
                  make
              her  forget
                    her
               own name.
                                                                                               Jon York

It just occurred
                           to me
                     that many
                 people are afraid
                          to heal
                    because their
                           entire
              identity is centered
                         around
                  the  trauma  they
                    experienced.

                      They  have
                          no  idea
                             who
                  they are outside
                              of
                             that
                      trauma and
                              that
                         unknown
                            can be
                         terrifying.

                            If you
                        can't  bare
                              fear,
                        do it scared.
                                                                                           Jon York   2019

and
    our love existed
           between
           "what if?"
                and
            "if only"
                and
"I'm afraid we'll be one
          of the ones
           who miss
            each other
        their entire life."
                and
   sometimes you have
               to die
       a little bit inside
                before
              you truly
        understand how
               to live.
      I  can  and  I  will
          find someone
            better who
        loves me  as much
           as I deserve
                and
      treats me the way
           I deserve
        to  be  treated.
If it hurts too much to hold on, then it's time to let go. You may have hurt me but you didn't break me. You don't have that much
power over me.
                                                             ­                            Jon York   2020

Love arrives again and in its train comes
ecstasies and memories of pleasures from
so long ago but this time around we are  
bold because our love will wash away the
chains of fear that our two souls did hold.

Her shadows in the night bring me much
delight even though she is far away right
now and I wonder will she ever come back
to me and that is the quiz and did I pass
or fail her inspection and I think I know
because she says she loves me so and that
she needs me more than I will ever know.

She comes back after being gone for so long
and her love is still strong and this I knew
all along because I could feel her from far
away saying that we will be together again
some day.

I've been waiting so long for you my love
and come to me you did like a beautiful song
that I have heard so many times before and
I felt you before you arrived and to keep
your love I do strive as our journey together
has begun and it is one that we both have
longed for, for a very long time in the sun.

Her love is so strong and her reasons for taking
so long are many but the past is gone and
together we will be for this long journey into
love as it unfolds for two formerly lost souls
who both had the same goals.

I knew there would come a day when she would
look at me and say that our love has arrived.
                                                        ­                      Jon York    2017

You make me laugh
        when I want to cry
You make me live
        when I want to die
You make me smile
        when I want to frown
You turned my life
        upside down
Because you are deep
        inside my heart
And I knew it from
        very start.

Your love. . .
warms me like my
         favorite morning
         coffee
Your love. . .
comforts me like the
         August heat at
         our Lake home
Your love. . .
melts me from my
         head to my toes
Your love. . .
means everything to
         me and I will
         never let it go.

True love only comes
once in a lifetime yet
         it lasts an eternity
         and will withstand
         the test of time,
         forever waiting
         until its love is
         returned.
                                 Jon York  2018

No one
  changes unless they
            want to.

Not  if  you  beg  them.
     Not if you shame
               them.
   Not if you use reason,
          emotion, or
      use  tough  love.
There's only one thing
            that makes
      someone  change :
  their  own  realization
         that they need
               to do it.

      And there's only
              one time
         it  will  happen :
  when they decide they're
                ready.

             A  strong
      relationship starts
               with two
        people who are
               ready to
        sacrifice anything
                   for
             each other.                                                          Jon York  2019

She was a special person I always cared to
know,  for our lives would intermingle  no
matter  where  we  would go or where  we
would  be.

She was always a shadow or an image in
my mind or a faint and hazy memory that
life had erased with time.

The days  went by, the  weeks  rushed on,
and before I knew it a year was gone. Then
I looked up and 50 years were gone.

If from life you take the best, and in life you
keep the jest, if love you hold, no matter how
the years go by, no matter how the birthdays
fly -- you are not old. But if your ambitions'
fires are dead -- then you are old.

It is the human touch in this world that counts,
the touch of your hands and mine which mean
far more to the fainting heart than shelter and
bread and wine.

For shelter is gone when the night is over, and
bread lasts only a day, but the touch of a hand
and the sound of the voice sing on in the soul. 
                                                                                              Jon York  2024

Never be  
  ashamed
    of how
  much you
      love,
    or how
     quickly
    you fall.
       Love
       fully,
       love
   completely,
       love
    naturally -
and don't ever
    apologize
       for it.
Don't ever be
        sorry
     for loving
  the way your
        heart
      knows.
                                                                       Jon York   2019

I am your rock,

You are my inspiration,

I am your balance,

You are my support,

I am your wild,

You are my calm,

I am your anchor,

You are my wings.

You're   my favorite

place  to  go  when

my   mind  searches

       for   peace.

I   have   seen   the

best    of  you   and

the   worst   of  you

and  I  choose  both.

The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves.
                                                          ­                             Jon York   2019

They laugh
       at  me  because  I'm
different. I laugh at them
         because  they're
            all the same.

               I don't
      blame  people  for
  talking  behind  my  back.
           They have
   obviously  heard  what
              happens
     when you talk ****
          to my face.

              I notice
       everything. I just
       act like I don't.
  People fail to realize that
         I don't forget
   **** they said or did to
          me to, or things
   they wouldn't do for me
      when  I needed help
because there is no expiration
                 date
         for disrespect.
                                                     ­                     Jon York   2019

Your eyes sang to my
soul,
your lips kissed my
heart,
your smile captured my
love,
your tender touch
bonded my love for
eternity,
you live in my heart and
head,
for my eyes saw your
beauty.
What else can I say to
make your day?
Have a good day.
                                                                                            Jon York   2019

Some
            people
              are
            worth  
           melting
               for.

             Always  
                kiss
                me
           goodnight
                and
             believe
               that
               home
                  is
           wherever
             I'm with
                you.
                                                                                 Jon York   2019

Sometimes. . .
              . . . when you release expectations you are free to enjoy things
                     for what they are instead of what you think they should be.

               . . .when you focus on problems that you have you have more
                    problems but if you focus on possibilities you have more
                    opportunities.    

               . . .when you want to disappear what you really want is to be
                    found.

              . . . it is okay if the only if the only thing did today was breathe.

              . . . if you could read my mind you would be in tears.

Sometimes.. .
              . . .every ones true colors show eventually.

              . . .the worst part about being strong is that no one asks if you're
                   okay.

              . . .people do not listen with the intent to understand but they
                   only listen with the intent to reply.

              . . .if life removes someone you never dreamed of losing it will
                   replace them with someone you never dreamed of having.

              . . .in life we forget the things we should remember and
                   remember the things we should forget.

Sometimes. . .
              . . .to heal a wound we have to stop touching it.

               . . .problems in life are there because of two reasons and they
                    are because we act without thinking or we keep thinking
                     without acting.

               . . .the beauty of life does not depend on how happy you are
                    but how happy others can be because of you.      

               . . .what is meant to be will always find a way.

               . . .you just have to be patient because the best things happen
                    unexpectedly.

                . . .if you can not accept it and can not change it, just leave it.

               . . .you can......end of story.
                                                          ­                                     Jon York    2016

                



               . . .

Ever since our first kiss the only sweetness I crave
is the one that comes from your lips and when I
sleep, I dream of you. And when I wake I long to
hold you in my arms. If anything, you  make  me
more  certain that I want to spend  my nights  by
your side and my days with your heart.

When  a  man  loves a  woman  she  becomes  his
weakness. When  a woman truly loves  a man  he
becomes her strength. This is called the exchange
of power and if  a man expects a  woman to be an
Angel in his  life, he  must first create  heaven for
her.

You  truly came  alive when  my touch  ignited a  
fire   on  your skin,  the  heat  engulfed  you and
purged all your conscious thoughts.   Tormented
by   my  tongue,  playing  with  the  edges,    you
squirmed  and  grabbed   my  head,  begging  me
in a hoarse voice:   please. . .
                                            make. . .
                                            me. . .
                                           AHHH    

I  am who I  am  because  of you.   You  are  every
reason,  every  hope, and every  dream  I've ever
had, and  no  matter  what happens  to  us  in the
future,  every  day we  are together is the greatest
day  of  my  life and  you know  ****  well we'd
go crazy without each other.....

After all this time. .

                            Always.
                                                                                         Jon York  2018

I  could  have
          avoided  you,
          but somehow
          I  knew  you
               were a
             collision
         worth having.
                                                                                       Jon York   2019

She wants to be loved,
she wants to feel needed,

but most of all
she wants that feeling
I gave her that first time,

when I reacted that she
was more than I
had ever dreamt of,
that first time alone with her,
the first time,

when in that moment
I made her forget
everything. . .  

She wants to be desired
by me
EVERYDAY so I undress
her slowly
and let my hands
touch her in places where
my kisses
will soon follow.
                                                                                            Jon York   2020

Bad
   decisions
       make
       good
      stories.
                                                                                       Jon York   2019

Missing you comes in waves.
Tonight  I am  drowning.

I love it when I check my phone
and your name with a picture of
you  in  your bathtub shows  up
and I love how your text message
says  to me "I  love  your  poetry,
never stop writing."

I love the feelings I get when I
look at my photographs of you.
One  of  your  hugs  would  be
good right now.

I crave you in the most innocent
form. I  crave to say "goodnight"
and kiss you on the forehead and
say "I adore you" when you feel
at you worst.

I crave you  in  ways where I  just
want to be next to you and nothing
more or less.
                                                                                             Jon York   2024

Getting old is when the biggest
lie you can tell yourself is
"I don't need to write that
number down, I'll remember it",
but don't regret growing old
because it is a privilege denied
to many, but know love is what
we are born with and fear is
something we learn and there
is no way we were born to just
pay bills and die although
sometimes it seems that way.

Be aware that you were given
this life because you are strong
enough to live it, so be happy, so
be bright, and be you, and forget
what's gone and appreciate what
still remains, while looking
forward to what's coming next,
and know that sometimes you
have to give up on people, not
because you don't care, but
because they don't, and the less
you give a ****, the happier
you will be

Know that the true mark of
maturity is when somebody
hurts you and you try to
understand the situation instead
of trying to hurt them back,
and you are able to remember
that silence is the most powerful
scream.

Feelings are just visitors, so let
come and go and know that
behind every smile, there is a
story you could never understand,
and know there are many
people who would love to have
your bad days and know that as
you breathe right now, that
another takes his last breath, so
stop complaining and learn to
love life with what you have.

Everyone I know, everywhere
I go, people just need some reason
to believe and I don't know about
anyone but me.
                                     Jon York  21017

Life is too short to
  be anything but
          happy.
So kiss slowly,
   love deeply,
forgive quickly
take chances  and
never have regrets.
                                                                                                 Jon York   2019

Life goes on. . . .
               with or
               without
              someone.
               Never let
             somebody
             waste your
              time, twice.
           Rule #1 of life:
                do what
              makes you
                 happy.
       Whatever you do,
              make sure
               you do it
                for you.
             Fortunately
             I don't have
               to beg for
                anyone's
               attention,
                 beg for
              anyone to
              talk to me,
              or beg for
           anyone to stay
              in my life.
           When it hurts
             to move on,
         I just remember
            the pain I felt
              hanging on.
                                                                                           Jon York   2019

I'm a sucker
        for
romantic stuff
       like
  ***** talk
       and
  rough ***.
                                                            ­                                Jon York   2019

COMMUNICATION is NOT
                     the  key  to a
                     SUCCESSFUL
                  RELATIONSHIP.

               COMPREHENSION
                                is.
               DOESN'T MATTER
                               how
                         much you
                  COMMUNICATE
                     with a person.....

               If  they don't get ****,
                        what good
                               is
              COMMUNICATION?

                        Always be
                in love with a SOUL,
                        not a FACE
                             OR  A
                            BODY.

                        She had me
                 with her words but
                        she lost me
                WITH HER ACTIONS.

                    Go where you feel
                     MOST ALIVE and
                do  whatever the  HELL
                   it takes to make you
                  FEEL  REAL  AGAIN.
                                                     ­                                       Jon York   2020

The right
                poem
                 finds
                  us
               exactly
               when it
              needs to.
                                                                          Jon York   2019

Speak
          only when
               you
               feel
         your words
               are
         better than
               the
            silence
               and
        understand
             that a
        relationship
              never
              dies a
        natural death...

              They
                are
         murdered
                 by
                Ego,
           Attitude  
                and
          Ignorance.
                                                                             Jon York   2019

Don't
            seek to be
      relevant, or liked,
            seek to be
         compassionate.
          Seek integrity.
          Seek humility.
             Seek light.
         Stop  worrying
      about other people.
           Get in touch
          with yourself
         instead.  Focus
              on what
      makes you happy
         and makes
      your  soul  feel
              at peace.

              Imagine
      meeting someone
    who  wanted  to  learn
           your past,
    not to punish you;
               but to
          understand
     how  you  needed
       to be loved.

May you fall in love with someone who never gets tired of saving you from your own chaos.
                                                          ­           Jon York   2019

Arousing
    you
  arouses
    me.
                                                                                          Jon York   2019

i find pieces
of you in every
song I listen to.
                                                                                           Jon York   2019

How we
all want so
badly to
divorce ourselves
from reality,
but that
***** just
won't sign the
papers.
                                                                              Jon York  2019

Some people are
not your friends,
they are just too
scared to be your
enemy.  Let them
hate,   just   make
sure that they spell
your   name  right,
and don't blame
    people for
disappointing
   you. Blame
   yourself for
  expecting too
       much
   from  them.
                                                                        Jon York  2019

Falling   in  love   is
easy. Having ***  is
easier. But bumping
into  someone   that
can spark your soul,
that   ****    is   rare.

I   no   longer   force
things.   What  flows,
flows. What  crashes,
crashes.  I only  have
space and energy for
things that are meant
for me.

Life is not about being
rich,   being    popular,
being  highly educated
or  being   perfect.   It's
about being real, humble,
and kind.                                                            ­            

Respect is for those who
deserve it, not for those
who demand it.

Some  people  say  they
can't see anything good
in  you.  Hug  them and
and  say  life  is difficult
for the blind.                                                                Jon York   2019

Why do our hearts
     choose lovers
that make us suffer?

      10 word story
                                                                                                Jon York   2019

Birth
What the **** is that?
Death.

The eyes
are useless
when the
mind is
blind
                                                                                Jon York    2019

Did you know that I know you?
better than you know yourself,
and without doubt, more than
any single other body has ever
known any single other body
in the history of this world or
any other. I know  before  you
know when your heart reaches
out  and  I  know  without  you
requiring  the  assistance  of   a
glance  or  gaze  when  you  are
scared  or  lonely,  or  tired   or  
hungry, or angry or worried, or  
blinded by absolute excitement.

Did you know I am  yours?  Did
you  know  that  I will always be
yours?  Did  you know  I waited
my  entire  life  to  have  you  be
mine again?  Did  you?

I would do any, whatever and all
things  as   long  as  doing  them
meant  doing  them   with   you.

I  love  us  for  the  way  our  eyes
make  love  to  each  others   souls.
                                                          ­                           Jon York    2019

She floats free of time carrying our hopes
for love, joy and celebration as her delicate
grace reminds us that life is rich, beauty is
everywhere and all you have to do is open
your eyes.

Every personal connection has meaning and
a reason and laughter is life's sweetest creation
and with brave wings she flies realizing that
spiritual knowing will never have a written
understanding.

She glitters, half guessed, half seen above
her surroundings and over her home a flashing
blip and she's gone and she lends to the eye
if this - a sunbeam giving the air a kiss.

A flash of harmless lightening, a mist of rainbow
dyes, the burnished sunbeams brightening as
if from flower to flower she flies knowing that
only from the heart can you touch the sky.

She sips the sweet moments and lets her true
colors glow and doesn't get her feathers ruffled
over little things as she just wings it, taking
herself lightly, knowing that good things
sometimes comes in small packages.

How the mind can fly, hovering for that everlasting
love light, a love that excites and connects with
her soul as she flutters here with a twitter there
like a hummingbird in flight prying for the sweetest
nectar and crying out to catch more than trite.

Underlying is her sugary passion as she darts in
fright in a tangle of steaming energy, alluring
nectar she seeps with all her might as she lets her
heart love tenderly.

She welcomes a ****** day and after reaping rewards
of a long journey, she decides it is time to rest and
play and after watching the light as it dwindles
into a dome, she must fly now, back to the place
she calls home.
                                                           ­        Jon York    2018

It's simple really ----
it's mice to just sit alone,
listen to some
music & meditate.
If you look at life carefully,
you soon come to realize
the beauty overshadows
           the flawed.
                                                                                     Jon York   2019

Maybe words are leaves
     and  grow  from
the  trees  inside  me.
If I stand beneath them
   and shake them
free,
you might praise me
for the piles  I  pick up
     and collect,
but   you,   my  love,
    planted  them
    inside  me.
You  watered  them
    with your tears
  and sang to them
with  your  laughter.
I may shake the words,
           but you
     are the sunlight
       that lets them
             grow.
                                                                                             Jon York   2019

We have the taste
         of each other
        embedded in
               our souls
      and maybe we
  aren't perfect but
       we share
something  that  is.
                                                                ­                                Jon York   2019

Does she scare you
                      a little?  Good
She should make you fear her love,
                     so when she lets you be a part of it,
                             you won't take it so lightly.
She should remind you of the power that beauty brings,
                      that storms reside in her veins, and that
                            she still wants you in the middle of it all.

Do not take this soul for granted, for she is fierce, and
she can take you places that you never thought you could
go; but she is still loving in the midst of it all. Like the calm
rain after a storm, she can bring life.  Learn her and cherish
her, respect her and love her, for she is so much more than
a pretty face, she is a soul on fire.
                                                           ­                                  Jon York   2019

Time lost  
its    way  
when    I
  found
  myself
with you.

Always
remember
my   heart
holds   you  
when   my
arms cannot.

It beats,
it breaks,
it loves,
it aches,
for you.
Only you.
                                                                                            Jon York   2019

I love this feeling with you,
how you ask me to
go higher.
                                                         ­                                     Jon York   2019

Just because

your legs are

   shaking,

it doesn't mean

I'm done eating.

    You look so

       delicious,

I want to explore

    ever inch of

   your body with

     my tongue.
                                                                                          Jon York   2019

When  you
          smile I can
         feel   all  my
             passion
          unfolding.
         Your hand
       brushes mine
              and a
          thousand
          sensations
             ******
                me.

         Yes, yes you...
               are mine.
                                                           ­                              Jon York   2019

I love you, enough to  fight  for  you,

to compromise for you, and sacrifice

for you,  if  need  be.


Enough  to  miss  you  when  we're

apart, no matter what length of time

it is for and regardless if the distance.



Enough to believe in our relationship,

to stand by it through the worst of

times, to have faith in our strength as

a couple, and to never give up on us.



Enough to spend the rest of my life with

you, be there for you when you need me

or need my words, or just want want me

to hold you and never leave you.

                   I love you that much.
                                                           ­                                  Jon York   2019

I Am Built From Every Mistake
           I Have Ever Made.
                                                                        ME: I Am Finally Happy
                                                                      LIFE:  lol, Wait A Second.
     It's Insane How Much
One Person Can Mean To You.


    Always Be In Love                                                 In Life
With A Soul,                                                 What You Really want
               Not a Face.                                     Will Never Come Easy.


   Be The Reason Someone
Believes In The Goodness
               Of People.
                                                                                           Jon York   2019

Let me tell you a secret.
I  poured  stars in  hidden corners
of  your soul. They promised me to
whisper  my  name occasionally
before  you  fall  asleep.
                                                                                         Jon York   2019