From you,
I always need:
one more kiss,
one more hug,
one more touch,
one more - you
know what!
simply,
always more of you.
                                                                                     Jon York   2019

You are
         my heaven
           on earth.

             You are
            my  sun,
           my moon,
              and all
           of my stars.

              You are
             the most
             beautiful
               thing I
               keep in
              my heart.  

          Some people
             are worth
            melting for.

              The best
           thing about
            memories
            is making
                them.

              Always
              kiss me
            goodnight.

               You are
         the best thing
            that's ever
                been
               mine.                                                          Jon York   2019

Sometimes
all   you
want  is  a
loving  kiss  and
   a hard
fast ****.

I can handle that
    action.
                                                    ­                                       Jon York   2019

They can
crush
a heart or
heal it.

They can                                                                 If you
shame                                                                    can touch
a soul or                                                                 her heart
liberate it.                                                               without
                                                                                 touching
They can                                                                 her, then
shatter                                                                      you can
dreams or                                                                melt her
energize them                                                        heart just
                                                                                     by
                                                                                   saying
They can                                                                 her name.      
obstruct
connection or
invite it.                                                                         Jon York  2018

They can
create
defenses or
melt them

                               We have to choose our words wisely

Fifty years, a lifetime for some but for me the blink
of an eye as true love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime
and those fifty years have seemed to me but a few
days.

The love I have had for her , like great loves,  lives
on and on and I love her more today than yesterday
and our love, forever warm and still to be enjoyed
is forever panting and forever young.

In the light and warmth of love our life grows
strong and comely, a better dwelling nor a sweeter
I have never found knowing that the heart that has
truly loved never forgets and loves on to the close.

No matter what beauties I saw on my way back to
you, they were but visits but you are my home and
chance cannot change my love nor time impair
knowing that love beyond the world cannot be
separated by it as great  loves live on and on.

Let us tend love's fire until the end knowing that
youth is but an hour, beauty a flower but love is
the jewel that wins the world and as age enriches
true love these five words I swear to you; I'll be
there for you and know that I'd live and die for
you but my words can't say what love can do
and as you breathe I want to be the air for you.

Somewhere there waits in this world of ours the
crowning glory of loving and being loved and
what is earth with all of its Art, Poetry and Music
worth--compared with love found and kept,
defining love as two souls in one, two hearts
into one heart knowing that he is not a lover
who does not love forever.
                                                        ­           Jon York    2018

Learn me slowly
please.
Be patient
with my pages
                                                                                       Jon York   2019

I  am  strong
         and   sensitive,
       rough and tender,
     just enough bad boy
       but in a good way.

       She can't help but
          get swept away...
         knowing that her
       soul thirsts for mine.

             She loved me
            in  many  ways
              but mostly
              in the way
               I looked
                  at her.
                                                                       Jon York   2019

LOVE
     there is no
        falling
          "in"
        or "out"
          of it.
     When you
          truly
        love, it
      never dies.
           Love
       is eternal
            it's
       sacred, it's
          a way
       of life..not
           some
        temporary
           feeling
      that loses it's
            truth
        over time.
   People only fall
        "out" of
     love when they                    I'll see you when the road
        never truly                                           decides it's time for our
            loved                                            ­                 paths to cross again.
     to begin with.                                                            ­    Jon York   2019

A strong                 You can't always wait for            The way I love is
relationship                   the perfect time.                           relentless. It
starts with                   Sometimes, you                            breaks my
two people                    have to dare                             concentration
who are ready             to do it because                       when I am busy
to sacrifice                   life is too short                           and drifts my
anything for               to wonder what                           mind away to
each other.                  could have been.                      thoughts of you
                                                             ­                           when I am in the
                                                             ­                                middle of
                                             I want to                       conversations. Like
No relationship                  wake up                       a desperate needy
is all sunshine,                   at 2:00 am,                          child it pokes
but two people                    roll over,                              and prods
can share one                   see your face                          tirelessly for
    umbrella                         and know                             my attention,
and survive                     that I'm right                               and in
   the storm                         where I'm                           the end always
     together.                         supposed                                  gets it.
                                                  to be.

     Love is when you
    sit beside someone           You don't always               Dear Ladies:
       doing nothing                   need a plan.                you should never
         yet you feel                   Sometimes you                      need to
      perfectly happy.                 just need to                 to prove to other
                                                  breathe, trust,                women that he's
     The less                               let go, and see              in love with you.
     you talk                                what happens.                That's his job.
     the more
      people                                Ask yourself        
   think about                           if what you                   Don't fall in love
   your words.                       are doing today                 with someone
                                                 is getting you                who always says
                                                closer to where                the right things.
                                                  you want to                       Fall in love
                                                be tomorrow.                   with someone
                                                         ­                                     who always
       Jon York     2018                                                             ­     does
                                                                ­                          the right things.

I
  cannot
    put a
price, a value,
      or a
  worth on
       the
  quiet and
       the
   calm that
       you
  bring to me
        as I
         live
       in this
     constant
          and
     deafening
         noise
    that always
        seems
            to
      surround
            me.
     All I can do
          is say,
   " Thank you."
         and that
    " I love you."  
            for it.                                                              ­          Jon York  2019

You are all things,
and in all things
I find you.

I see you in the ruffled sheets,
still painted
with the silhouette of morning.

I see you in the coffee that stains
the water that fills my cup.

I hear you,
your shuffled laughter as the sound
of each page turning in every book I read.

The sound of my breath,
echoing in my ears before sleep
and it's you
whispering between exhales.

You are all things
and in that,
you are never
alone.

In all things
I find you and in that
we are never
apart.

I cannot put a price, value, or worth on the quiet and calm that
you bring to the constant and deafening noise that always seems
to surround me.
                                                             ­                            Jon York  2019

If ever
you run away,
let it be
with me,
                                                                                          Jon York   2019

It's  exciting
when   you  find
parts of yourself
         in someone              
                else.
                                                                                             Jon York    2019

It does
  not matter
how slowly
  you go as
long as you
do not stop.
                                                                                                 Jon York   2019

It  didn't  take  much
         for  me   to   love  her,
         one brush of her hand
                against mine
                 and I was hers...
           branded by her touch
           forever...

           I   brought   her   mouth
            to  mine  and said, "I'm
            going  to kiss  you until
             the only name you will
              ever   taste  is   mine."
                                                                         Jon York   2019

A
certain
darkness
     is
needed
     to
    see
    the
   stars.
                                                                                        Jon York   2019

They can keep

their ordinary love.

I want to drown you

    in passion and

devour  you  every  night.

Don't close your eyes baby.

I  want  to  see  you while

you  come  apart  with  me

inside  you.    And I  want

to  come  apart  inside  you,

while  you  watch.  I  want  to

forget    my  name  while   I'm

busy moaning  yours.  Delicious

torture at my skilled hands. Your

mind  and  body  awakened...alive...aroused

for me.
                                                                                       Jon York   2019

How
your eyes
fall on me
so undistracted.
                                                                                               Jon York   2019

Amazing
                how manageable
                         home
               can feel
               with only
              one blanket
              and the right
                   two arms
                   and warm kisses.

               I kiss you
               and
               on your lips
               I taste the sea
               and the sea
               has always been
               where
               my home
                       will always be.

               One look at you
               and I knew I had
               spent far too much
               time trying to write
               a poem as beautiful
                          as you.

               And I just hope it is
               home you find
               and
               freedom you feel
               when loving me.
                                                                                         Jon York   2019

I  have  
     survived
  100%  of  my
   worst days
         so far,
       guess  I'll  
           just
      keep going.
                                                                                   Jon York   2019

I   need   a  snuggle
with  a  little  bit  of
****   thrown   in...
I need a snugglefuck
                                                                                           Jon York   2019

Time  spent  with  the
right person feels like
a  vacation  from   the
world.
                                                                                 Jon York   2019

As long
             as you feel pain,
                 you're still
                     alive.

                     As long
         as you make mistakes,
                  you're still
                     human.

                     As long
             as you keep trying,
                  there's still
                       hope.

                    Everything
                 is  temporary.
                      Emotions,
              thoughts, people,
                  and scenery.

                 Do not become
                       attached,
                 just flow with it.

          When  you're  in a dark
                        place you
                 sometimes tend to
          think you've been buried.

                  Perhaps you've
          been planted and the only
                 choice you have
                       is to grow.
                                                                                          Jon York   2019

I  won't  let pain
turn   my   heart
into    something
ugly. I will show
you that  surviving
can  be   beautiful.

Always remember                                  
that you are free to                                  
do what you want                                      
but you are never                                        
free    from   the                                            
consequences    o­f                                        .
your   actions.   So
always choose to
do good.

You     only     have                                     There are three solutions
control  over  three                                   ­  to every problem: Accept it,
things  in  your life -                                   change it or leave it. If you
The  thoughts  you                                      can't­ accept it, change it.
think,  the   images                                      If you   can't   change  it,
you  visualize,  and                                 ­    leave it.
the action you take.

Your  words  mean
nothing when your                       Society has become so fake
actions   are    the                                               that the truth actually
complete opposite.                                                        ­    bothers people
                                          Jon York   2019

Looking out at the road
                               rushing under
                my wheels, I can't tell you all
                                 how crazy
                              this   life   feels.

                  I looked around and decided
                                       that  
                            ( words - poetry )
                 was  the  only   way  I  could
                            have  an   effect
                                on  people.

                   ­           I wanted to
                    contribute something to
                                 help them
                    to understand the life
                         that  they  are  in
                              right now.

                             I use poetry
                 and Art ( abstract paintings )
                             to share my
                       experiences, the pain,
                            of daily combat
                   in  a   deadly  war  & the
           power  of  the love that I needed to
                           receive  in  order
                               to be able to
            return to humanity from that war
                     and the progress of   
                    my    soul  in  the   life I  am
                           living presently.
                                                      ­                    Jon York   2019

You cannot
convince people to
love you. This is an
absolute.   No   one
will ever give you
love  because  you
want   him  or  her
to  give   it.     Real
love   moves  freely
in  both  directions.  
Don't  waste   your
time   on  anything
else.
                                                                        Jon York   2019

Everything
        you
        can
   imagine
      is real
        and
        your
         only
        limit
          is
       your
      mind
         so
     Dream.
       Plan.
        Do.
    Repeat,
    because  
     mindset
          is
   everything
    and only
     you can
      make
          it
     happen.
                                                                                        Jon York   2019

If you want to fly with the eagles,
don't swim with the ducks.
                                                                                      Jon York    2019

If you
  genuinely
      love
  someone,
  don't ever
    decorate
   their eyes
   with tears,
    their ears
    with lies,
     and their
       heart
      with a
     wound.
                                                                                                Jon York   2019

Too many
    people
undervalue
what they are,
and overvalue
what they're
not.
                                                                                               Jon York  2019

The entire sum of existence is the magic

of being

needed by

just one person.

Help me to find

you when I search

for you.

I come to you

searching for courage

and comfort

to carry me through this day.

Thank you for being

near me when I reach

out to you for comfort.

And when I fall apart

you always put me back together again.                     Jon York   2019

Souls tend
          to  go  back  to
              who feels
        like home. Time
     tells  us  if  it  is  love.

               My heart
         is  so  full  of you
                   I can
             hardly call it
               my own.

         After all this time?  

                           Always.

               With her I
        can  breath  again.
               Not that I
          couldn't  before.

                     But it's
             different now,
                     she's
                  different.
                                                                ­                      Jon York   2019

I carried stars
in my pockets
because I knew
she feared the dark
           and
whenever sadness
   paid her a visit,
  I'd paint galaxies
on the back of her hands
           and
   she stared at
        the stars
  like they were
       pillows for
        her mind
       and in their
  light she could rest
    her heavy head.
     And in the end
when  her  eyelids  found
    their infinite darkness
she will know that our bodies
    were tiny universes,
           and that I
loved her with a thousand
                 sea's.
                                                          ­                      Jon York   2019

Be you.
   The world will
           adjust.

The  pain  you  feel
  today, will be the
   strength you feel
       tomorrow.

        The  distance
   between    dreams
      and reality is
      called   action.

       What consumes
             your mind
              controls
              your  life.

            When life
           gets  blurred,
                adjust
           your   focus.

             Be  thankful
      for  what  you  are  now,
                 and keep
           fighting  for  what

               you want to
              be   tomorrow. 
No matter what happens, no matter how far you seem to be away
from what you want, never stop believing that you'll somehow make it. Have an unrelenting belief that things will work out.                                                                  ­                            Jon York   2019

We always have a choice and
it is our choices that show what
we truly are far more than our
abilities so when you get the
chance to sit it out or dance,
give faith a fighting chance....

I hope you dance and remember
that it is your choice, it is your
life and what we do comes
from what we think.

We always have a choice, we
can let circumstances harden
us or we can let them soften
us and make us kinder, it is
your choice so remember that
the truth is that you are
responsible for what you think,
because it is only at this level
that you can exercise choice.

We choose only once, we choose
to be warriors or to be ordinary
and know that a second choice
does not exist, not on this earth,
so love yourself, trust your
choices and everything is possible.

If you start looking at life with
joy, sadness starts disappearing,
so know that you cannot have
heaven and hell together but you
can only have one, it is your choice
and remember, life's not about
hoping and wishing, it's about
doing, being and becoming.
                                                      Jon York    2018

Nothing is
as  painful
as   staying
stuck
somewhere
you don't
belong.
                                                                                       Jon York     2019

You walk in, and
my heart beats different.
                                                                                           Jon York   2019

It's  your  Birthday  today  sweet  girl,  a  
blushing   beauty   beneath   your   long 
brown  soft  curls.

You  are  the most beautiful creature with
such a delightful  nature and a smile  that  
lights  up  your face when  our  eyes meet  
because   of your  knowing  that all of our
time together  is  always such  a  treat and
as your smile  lights up your face,  I  stare
at  your  body  to  my  disgrace.

You would  not smile at me  so  sweetly if
you  knew  I  wanted  you  so  completely.
Oh  beautiful creature  demurely  dressed
how  I  yearn   for  you   to  digest   and  If
you  could   read  my  lustful   mind   such
filthy   thoughts   there   you   would   find.

Is  your nature  as  innocent as  it  seems or  
are you as  ***** as  in  my  dreams? If  you  
knew  of the  one  I dreamed  last night, oh
how you succumbed without a fight.

I  kissed and caressed all   your  body parts
of which  I  cupped  and  all  o f your  sweet
nectar   I   greedily  supped  and   then  like
beasts we  met  in  congress but  it was only
a dream, confess I must.

Oh pretty thing with sumptuous figure let
me  consume  you  in  my vigor. Oh  pretty
young lady half my age, release my passion
from its cage.                                                            ­        Jon York   2020

I have
   absolutely
     no desire
        to be
      average.
                                                                                Jon York   2019

Life's biggest
tragedy  is  that  we  get
old too soon and wise
             too late.
                                                                                     Jon York    2019

Do
    more of
      what
  makes you
      happy
        so I
got lost in her,
       and it
  was the kind
        of lost
   that's exactly
           like
   being found.
                                                                            Jon York   2019

And the
             bravest
            of souls
           are those
               who
            choose
               love.

       over and over.  

           Kindness
          is a simple
         way to tell
           another
         struggling
          soul that
           there is
               love
              to be
              found
                  in
               this
              world.
                                                                                   Jon York   2019

She
                     looks like a girl,
                     acts like a lady,
                     plays like a boy,
                     isn't afraid to get *****,
                     is respectable in public,
                     is passionate in private.

             She
                     treats her body like a temple, never like a motel,
                         is one man's lover, not the lover of many men,
                            loves unconditionally. hates with a purpose.
                                                      speaks in truths, never in lies
.
                                        And has a faithful heart.
                                                                                    Jon York   2019

Sometimes  I  come  to you searching
for words from you that will give me
the courage  and  comfort to carry me
           through another day
                
     And   if  I  have  lost  faith  in  you,
      even  for  a  moment, I  know that
               you will restore it.
                                                                                        Jon York   2019

We do not
choose who we love.
But rather our souls
  choose for us.

     A soft kiss
between our souls
as my soul thirsts
       for yours.

  Let my words
       kiss you
    when I can't.

  Some souls just
understand each other
   upon meeting.
                                                        ­                     Jon York   2019

Sometimes
                      all   you really
                      need is a hug or
                      someone to just
                      tell you everything
                                 will be okay.

                      Okay, or some
                       rough  *** or
                           whatever
                 as nothing grows into
                          something.

                  Forgive my fingers,
                        for when they
                        find your body,
                     they  always  lose
                        themselves.

                         I always practice
                         safe ***, I always
                          tie her to the bed,
                          so she doesn't
                          fall out.

                         I love what you are...
                         what you do  to me, and
                         how you love me,
                         always trying so hard
                         to please me and I
         understand exactly what and who you are.

                                                           ­                              Jon York   2019

I've come
             to realize
          I  don't  need
       someone who'll
          set my world
               on fire.

              My life
          has  a  way
          of bursting
           into flames
           more often
        than  I'd   like.

         What I need
         is someone
         who will help
     sooth my burns
         and remove
           the smoke
             from my
                lungs,
         showing  me
          exactly how
                I can
               breathe
                again.

            When you
      kiss  me  without
       uttering a word,
            you speak
            to my soul.
                                                           ­                            Jon York   2019

Let every breath
that leaves my lungs
be filled with you.
                                                                                            Jon York   2019

I'd rather
            live  a  life  of

                'Oh   wells' 

             than a life of

                 'What   if's.
                                                           ­                                    Jon York   2019

When I found her
I learned that she
was not something
wild to tame but
something wild to
                run with.
                                                                                            Jon York   2019