Real love                                                               I'll
doesn't care                                                    let you be
about money,                                                      in
your age,                                                         my dreams
your looks,                                                           if
your past,                                                         I can be
your religion,                                                   in yours.
your house,
your reputation,
the mistakes
you've made
or any so-called
obstacles that                                                        You              
appear to be                                                      can't be wise                    
in the way.                                                                 and in love
It just is.                                                                      at the
                                                                                      same time.
What is unconditional love?
It's a love that exists no matter the conditions.
Nothing can change this love, not even time.

The recipe for                                                Every pleasure's
a good life:                                                      got an edge of          
hug more.                                                  pain, pay your        
love more.                                                     ticket and don't
kiss more.                                                                complain.
**** more.              Jon York   201'9

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

I hope you want to
stay for a long time,
because my heart
really likes you.
                                                                                              Jon York   2019

All
relationships
         go
     through
        hell,
       REAL
relationships
          get
     through
           it.
                                                                                  Jon York   2019

I ought not to love you so,

I ought to be ashamed,

I ought to give you up,

Tell you my love has waned,
              --- But ---
I do, --
          I don't,
                     I can't,
                              I won't

 Love is an urchin
    a poor gutter rat
      starved and anemic
        But happy at that
                                                    Jon York 2017

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

One
     of the best
   lessons I  have
           ever
       received
          in life
           is to
          master
          how to
          remain
            calm.
                                              ­                       Jon York   2019

How brief
our encounter,
yet the experience
I hold in
high esteem.

Time dies,
life goes on.

Our hearts burn
in eternal flame.

We dance
in the dark.

Dancing,
secretly dancing.

Remembered,
remembering.

                                                                                         Jon York   2021

There's  a
difference
between
someone
who wants you,              and
                                           someone
                                           who would
                                           do anything
                                           to  keep  you.  
                                                                       REMEMBER THAT.

Always
  remember
     to fall
     asleep
      with
        a
    dream
        and
    wake up
      with
          a
     purpose
        and
       with
     the one
        you
        love
      beside
        you.

          There's a
  difference between
      someone who
wants you and someone
who would do anything
     to keep you.                   Remember that

                                                                                        Jon York   2019.

Don't tell people
    your plans.
Show them your
        results.
                                                                                      Jon York   2019

Yes, I'm
thinking
about you
right now.
                                                                                                Jon York  2019

Yes,  I'm
thinking
about  you
right  now,
                                                                      Jon York   2019

tell me that they love me
                  and
devour my heart and soul.
                                                                   Jon York   2019

I   want   to
   wake   up
   at    2 am,
  roll   over,
see your face,
   and know
that I'm right
   where I'm
  supposed
     to   be.
                                                                                            Jon York    2019

The   stars    nodded,
the    ocean    agreed,
the    flowers   chorused,
"bloom now --- bloom free"
--- rise again.
                                                                                                Jon York   2019

There is no wind, row!
                                                                                    Jon York   2019

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

You don't
have a soul.
You  are a
      soul.
You have a
     body

A   beautiful
face will age
and a perfect
body will
change.                                                      
                                                                ­     I don't want to make love,
But a beautiful                                           I just want to rub my soul
soul will always                                         up against yours and watch
be a beautiful                                              love make us.
soul.

Fight for the                                                             All I
fairy tale, it                                                              c­an do is            
does  exist.                                                     ­          be me,
                                                             ­                       whoever that is.
                                                             ­                                Jon York  2019

Love Her right.
**** her hard.
And   ruin  her
for  other men.
                                                                                           Jon York   2019

I always wait for her
  to close her eyes. I fight
       the fight to watch her sleep.
I try to stay so close to her that
     I can feel her breathing.
I watch her dream her dreams
        so deep.
I always wait until her eyes close
        as though I am guarding her
                from harm. And when I
meet her there in dreamland
       I will be holding her safely in my arms.
                                                                                             Jon York   2019

Waiting is so hard.                   Love is not                Just the thought
  But I'll spend as much                finding                       of being with
time alone as I have to if          someone to                           you
    that means getting to               live with,                    tomorrow is
       spend the rest                       It's finding               enough to get me
          of my life                      someone you can't          through today.
               with                             live without.
               you.                                                             ­       
                                                         ­                                        I will stop
                                              Mornings would                    missing you
           I want to                       be so much                          when I am
       grow old with                    better if                                   with
         you and be                  I woke up next                            you.
           able to                             to you.
         say that I
       have had an                                                               ­     Your voice
   amazing life with               In case you                                 is my
               you.                        ever foolishly                             favorite
                                                forget: I am                                sound.
                        ­                         never not
       It doesn't                         thinking of
          matter                               you.                                   You stole my
    where I am;                                                              ­           heart, but
     I am yours                         My lips                                I guess I'll let
                                                  miss       ­                                     you
                        ­                          yours                                  ­    keep it.
      Every time                                        You give
I see you I'm more                                    me
    convinced we                                  the kind of                 I am so
         belong                                             feeling               ready for our        
       together.                                      people write                  our
                                      ­                            novels                     future
   Cuddling                                              about.     ­               together.
    with you
   would be                                                              J­on York   2018
      perfect
  right now.

Life is about                    Be selective in                     Don't ask why          
       moments,                        your                                  someone           don't                             battles              ­          keeps hurting you
wait for them,                          for                               ­       ask
     create them.                      sometimes                    why you keep
                                            peace is better                    letting them.
                                            than being right.
       You                                                              ­                     Have
always have                            The best                                     a
        a                                  way to get things                       dream        
     have a                                       done                     ­            of love
     choice.                                         is                                and look for                                                       simply     ­                              it
                                ­                       begin.                                   in
                                                             ­                             hidden places of
                                              You             ­                          the future.
        Be proud              have never been
          of who                       mine                            I didn't know that
         you are                  but I was                             love could be
         and not                     yours.                                 this way.
    ashamed of how                                               ...my sun all day,
somebody else sees                                                 my dreams at night,
             you.                                                             ­   my thoughts,
                                                       ­                                  words,
                       ...my lips and skin                               tears, hopes.
                       will still remember.                               ....my joy!
                          My hands will
           will still know all the contours and
               clearly feel the touch of you.
                                                            ­                             Jon York    2017

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.

Our connection is seamless,
your desire to feel beautiful
is   bigger  than  the   sun,
and my desire to love you,
swallowed your desire like
the horizon.
                                                        ­                                       Jon York   2019

Somewhere in the world is a treasure
that has no value to anyone but you,
and a secret that is meaningless to
everyone except you, and a frontier
that possesses a revelation that only
you know how to exploit.

Search for those things.

Somewhere in the world is a  person
who could ask you that precise question
that you need to hear in order to catalyze
the next phase of your evolution.

Do what's necessary to come face to face
with that person and listen to what they
have to say.

Feel empowered if you use your power
to empower others.

There's a reason why the rear view mirror
is so small and the windshield is so big.

It is because where you're headed is much
more important than what you've left
behind and it allows you to search for those
things.                                                         ­                          Jon York 2022

Collect, collaborate
and share thoughts
from your experiences
knowing that at any
given moment you
have the power to say
that this is not how
the story is going
to end.

Life will expand
or shrink in
proportion to
your courage and
it is not the
mountain that
we conquer but
ourselves.

Realize life while
you live it and
every minute savor
what you have
whether it is
being rich or poor
or being alone
and just be glad
to be alive and
to be here now.

It is not what
you look at
that matters,
it is what you
see and patience
is a companion
of wisdom.

We first make
habits then our
habits make us
so seek first to
understand then
to be understood.      
                                Jon York      2015

No
     relationship
               is
       all sunshine,
              but
             two
           people
         can share
             one
         umbrella
              and
          survive
              the
            storm
          together.
           Smile
             like
         the whole
        universe
                is
            yours.
          Just love,
               see
          the good
              and
             relax.
                                                                                     Jon York   2019

Self-respect is so hard to come by sometimes
knowing that we cannot buy it because it is
never for sale and it cannot be fabricated
out of public relations either.

Self-respect comes to us when we are alone,
in quiet moments, in quiet places, when
we suddenly realize that knowing the good,
we have done it and knowing the beautiful,
we have served it, and knowing the truth,
we have spoken it.

Blowing out someone else s candle doesn't
make ours shine brighter or give us any
self-respect so finish every day and be done
with it and press on because nothing
can take the place of persistence so make
it work and discover your world realizing
that seldom does an individual exceed
his own expectations.

Know that the best thing you can do
is the right thing, and the next best thing
you can do is the wrong thing but the
worst thing you can do is nothing.

so know that powerful minds always
encounter opposition from simple minds
and if we believe in ourselves self- respect
will follow in our world and we can
stand tall in a big world where we
feel so small.
                                                  Jon York    2015


         Jon York         2015

What  I  want  most,
is to know
what you hear
in the silence
between us.

Poetry  is
    an echo
asking a
shadow to
       dance.

 Read to me,
a page from your soul
one night at a time.

You are
whatever  a
           moon
has always
        meant,
and
whatever
a sun will
always sing.

I ripple
when you touch me
like a childish river
         running home.

Some souls just understand each other upon meeting and when souls find comfort in one another separation is not possible.
                                                       ­                                      Jon York   2019

You are never too old to
set  another  goal  or   to
   dream a new dream.

  I  am  70 years  old  and
still have yet another goal
to accomplish  and  I  still
dream   new  dreams   of
which I   intend   to turn
into  reality   before   I  
                                leave.

What else is  there to  do
when the fire within still
burns.

             Watch me.
                                                             ­                            Jon York   2019

Chemistry is me
touching your mind
      and setting
       your body
            on
            fire.
                                                                                        Jon York  2019

Being
                in  love  is  a  very
                 strange thing.
             Your  thoughts  are
                         always
                drifting towards
                     this  person,
                       no matter
               what you're doing.
                       She calms
                  your mind and
                             sets
                    your heart on
                             fire.
              She is that beautiful
                     combination
                          of both.
                   Some people will
                             touch
                         your body.
                    Some people will
                              touch
                           your soul.
                                 She
                           does both
                           whenever
                                    it
                           pleases her.
                               Because
                                    she
                              knows she
                                    can.
                       ­                                                                 ­Jon York   2019

The ocean
                           is
              everything  she
                 wants to be,
         beautiful, mysterious,
                 wild and free.

                  She was given
                       this  life
             because she is strong
                enough to live it.

                       One day,
                  we  will  never  
                        have to
                   say  goodbye,
                 only   goodnight.

                           She is
                   soft and doesn't
                          let  the
                          world
                   make  her  hard.

                              She
                        doesn't let
                pain make her hate
                    and she will
                            never
                      let bitterness
                            steal
                     her sweetness.
                                                                                       Jon York   2019

She    enters   my    heart   when  
I am unaware of   her   presence,  
and she  unbends  my  thoughts
when  my   self-esteem  needs   a
boost allowing me to love myself
as I love her.

She    gives  me   the   courage  to
embrace dreams and the strength
to   sacrifice  for  them   and    the  
determination     to    fulfill   them.

When  I feel lonely or distressed,
she helps  me to remember   that  
      she   is  always  with   me.
                                                                                      Jon York   2019

If there's even
        a  slight  chance  at  getting
                 something or that
          someone that will make you
                  happy, risk it.
              Life  is  too  short  and
                happines­s too rare.

                   Sometimes you
            have to stop being scared
                 and just go for it.
              Either it will work out,
                        or  it  won't.
                         That's life.
                   Everything's a risk.
                         Not doing
                   anything  is  a  risk.
                        It's up to you.

               I   smile   a  little  bit  more
                    after talking to her
                          and I think
                 that's  what  made  me  
                       realize I was in
          love with her and without even
                      trying  she  makes
                 my life better and she is
                         the light finally
                            leading me
                                 home
                                 to her,  
                     for she is my home.
                            
                                                                ­                           Jon York   2019

She knew me,
from my words and able
to feel my pain that was crouched
in widom and carefully hidden
but nevertheless sometimes I feel
the echoe of old hurts
whispering across my mind
passing like shadows
across my spirit.

I am deeply touched
by her need to heal and soothe
with loves tender touch
and sometimes I feel
as though I do not choose it
but rather it chooses me!

I am helpless to do
anything other than to
let it wash across
my soul.

My heart weeps
and tears flow freely
to mend the wound
and to let joy come
once more
and I can only rest
when I know
that there is peace.

These are only words,
but words are
all I have to take
her heart away.        Jon York     2012

The sunrise,
        of course doesn't
             care if you
         watch  it or  not.
It will keep on being beautiful,
          even if no one
   bothers  to  look  at  it.

              And she is
         the same. she doesn't
   care  if I watch  her  or  not,
       and she will keep on
being beautiful , even if I  don't
                look at her.

              Be  yourself,
        people  don't  have to  
             like you, and
      you don't have to care
         and understand
     that there are people who
            are always in love
        with  the  sky, no  matter
the weather and  I have found her,
       someone  who  loves
        me  in the  same  way.
                                              ­                              Jon York  2019

She real,
          she's deep, she's
  mystical, and she believes
           in kindness and
     oneness  and  romance
              and magic.

            She's  a  warrior,
                 and a lover.

               She believes in
        road trips to the moon
                     and stars
           and  dancing  with
                the universe.

            She's  fearless and
                      gentle, and
               brave. She lives in
                       oceans,
                      waterfalls,
                  sunsets,  an­d
                     galaxies.

                    She's  the
                        artist,
                     the poet,
                 the poem, and
                    the dream.

                    She's LOVE
                                                            ­               Jon York   2019

She will be open
and yet mysterious and concerned
but not really very serious
yet she will have class without pretence
and style without offense .

She will be able to  laugh
but will be somewhat serene
and she will take the time to dream
yet will sit in slience when there is nothing to be  
said and she will talk about her freedom
that she lives everyday.

This is the women that I look for  
and I wonder where are
you are hiding my love
because I have sought you
for so long.

I will care not whose you were
or even whose you are
because when I see you
and look into your eyes you
will know that you
are mine.

Each day without you
will never come again and I wait in hope
and sorrow thinking that maybe
you will come tomorrow
and connect with my soul.

Love was before birth
and love is after death and the emotions
that I have explored here
are very near to my heart
and I hope that I have expressed
them well.                

These were my thoughts
and emotions when I met her
but she stayed for only two years
and now now she is gone.

I sit here knowing that another
will come soon and I will try again
to make my dreams
come true.                           

I have to remember
that people live and die but
I know that there  is a place for me
in someone's eye...         Jon York        2012

She  ached
for  me.  
She  craved
my  hands,  
my  touch,
my  lips
  in   any  
form. She
just wanted
to feel  me
feeling  her.  
She  thought
I   would
    never  
understand,
  but  she
   was the
   one that
    didn't
understand,
   that my
   hunger
   for  her  
   was far
    greater
     than
  she  had  
      ever  
known before.                                                          ­        Jon York   2019

Love
  her
deeply
but also
remember
  to love
     her
raw and
    f__k
     her
senseless.
    In the
     end,
    words
      and
    sweet
  gestures
   are not
   enough.
      She
   wants to
      feel
     your
   passion.
                                                                                       Jon York   2019

I was different
               from other men. In my
        words  she  found  desires that
                    she didn't know
                          she had.

                    When  I  looked
                             at her,
               she felt as though I could
                             hear her
                       very  thoughts.
                 When  I  touched  her,
                      she knew she
              would give me anything.
                        She would
                 give me everything.

                        She lay alone
           in her bed and her desire
                           for me was
                   a burden on her soul.
                            She could
                  feel  it  like  a  weight on
                             her chest,
                    and  restlessness  in
                      ­      her limbs.
                  She  wanted  to  feel  me
                       deep inside her.
                               She was
                          desperate  for
                       ­      my touch.
                                                          ­                                 Jon York    2019

Don't say a word....
mouths can be used
in other ways,
tongues artfully move
in other ways,
to wordlessly say all
the things we've been
wanting to say.
                                                                                             Jon York   2019

Make it
    happen.

      Shock
   everyone.
                                                                                           Jon York   2019

Making a big life change is pretty scary. . .
But you know what is even scarier?  regret.
In the end, we only regret the chances we
didn't take, relationships we were afraid to
have, and the decisions we waited too long
to make.

Everything in your life is a reflection of a
choice you have made. If you want a different
result, make a different choice.

Growth is painful, change is painful. But nothing
is  as  painful as  staying stuck  somewhere  
you don't belong.

Getting  your  ****  together requires  a  level  of
honesty you can't even imagine.

There is  nothing  easy about  realizing  you're
the one that's been holding you back the
whole time.

The fact that you aren't where you want to be
should be enough motivation,                                        Jon York   2021

Some souls
just click instantly.
         Whether
     you're lovers,
      best friends,
       soul mates,
      twin flames,
              or
    something  else.
       You accept
     this person for
       everything
         they are,
              and
        they would
    never let you be
          anything
              less
         than your
      beautiful and
       sometimes
          flawed
              self.
     There is nothing
            like the
           feeling
        infatuation.
       It is the most
painful feeling ecstasy. . .
          lust and
  obsession combined,
         the volume
      turned way up.                                          
Shut your eyes and see.                                                   Jon York   2019

In this silly human race there are so many
liars and cheaters who are always
getting in your face with lies
that disgrace.

Every day they look you straight in the eyes
with all of their many lies
and sometimes it is so hard
to understand why.

As humans we can only take
so much pain but so many are just
out for their own personal gain
and from inflicting pain these
liars do not refrain.

Self centered they are
just wanting to be the one and only star
as they feel the power of their lies
to those who are too scared
to ask why.

With lies they have control and power
and the ability to manipulate
when in reality their own life is
pretty sour so just walk away before
it becomes too late
and you start thinking that they might
be telling the truth on
any given day.

Realize that lying is all that they know
and that they are infectious parasites that
will disease your heart and soul
with their lies delivered to you in a chalice of
smiles and sweet kisses and be aware
that with those hugs and kisses
only come broken wishes
and steady misses.

If only
are the only two words
that can always
make one feel so lonely
as they cause you to
lose sight even though
you still have your vision...                                                        ­
                                       Jon York     2012

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

No matter what you step in
keep walking along
and stay strong and sing
your own song because life
is beauty so let us admire it
and life is sometimes a dream
so let us realize it and let
us dare it.

The road might get rough
if somebody calls your bluff
or you decide that
you have had enough of
other peoples unreal
stuff.

Just keep moving along
singing your own song
no matter what others say
and sometime you  will have
your day.

Our day is here
and I feel your presence
and I can feel your touch
and as I close my eyes to the darkness
I can feel your heart beating
next to mine as you
wrap yourself around me
one more time.  

Happiness is up to us
and we may run, walk,
stumble, drive or fly
but let us never lose sight
of the reason why
we take this journey
or miss our chance
to see a rainbow
along the way.

For as long as you love me
I'll only love you
and as long as forever
my love will be true
for where there is love
there is life and you know
that we will sing
our own song.        Jon   York          2012

It's  a  hard time  to  be  human.
We know too much and too little.

Exaggerate  your flaws until  they
turn  into  virtues.

I wouldn't be surprised if poetry
-- poetry  in  the  broadest  sense,
in the sense  of a world filled with
metaphor, rhyme,  and recurring
patterns,  shapes, and designs -- is
how the world works,. The world
isn't  logical,  it's  a  song.

I  go  where  my  words  take  me.
I  write  for  my  own  amusement
but my ink comes from  the  heart
and sometimes a dark mind.

I wouldn't say I'm an inexperienced
poet, but  staying  in  the  lines  has
never been one of my strong points.
                                                                                              Jon York  2022