Time flies whether you're
having fun or not and
when we are young we
admire clever people but
when we get old we admire
kind people and sadly we
find that there is always a
specific moment when we
realize that our youth is
gone.

The first forty years of life
give us the text and the next
thirty supply the commentary
and one of the many things
no one tells us about aging
is that it is such a nice
change from being young
because in youth we learn
and in age we understand
but the really sad part about
getting old is that we stay
young on the inside but no
one can tell.

Live a good and honorable
life and then when you get
older and think back you'll
get to enjoy it a second time
around and by the time you
hit sixty you'll have learned
your hardest lessons because
by then you have found out
that only a few things are
really important and you
have learned to take life
seriously but not yourself
and by then you know that
beautiful young people are
acts of nature and beautiful
old people are works of art.
                                                      on York   2016

Don't fear the pain,

use it,

keep it there,

beside you,

and maybe,

just maybe,

it will give you the words to say in a poem,

or the notes to play in a song,

for sometimes

it is flying with what hurts,

that gives us the colors to paint with.
                                                                                        Jon York    2018

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

You get
       in life,
what you have
   the courage
     to ask for.
                                                                                                Jon York   2019

Intimacy  is not  about  ******,
                           it's about trust.
Trust is about ******,
the courage to show who you
really are.
                                                                                             Jon York   2019

You,
with those
morning eyes.
And that
morning voice.
In those
morning sheets.

         I
    didn't
   stand a
   chance.

  Remember
    the time
      when
        the
   covers on
    our bed
    were the
      only
     shield
  we needed
   against the
    terrifying
   everything                                            What is done in love
        that                                                ­                               is done well.
surrounded us?                                                              ­   Jon York   2019

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

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

That  prison  of  
impossibility glittered
with flecks of crossed
stars.

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

I  want  soul  ***.
I  need to  taste  your
   thought  processes.
  Together   we   can
    unravel  riddles.
        the deeper,
        the sweeter.
                                                                                      Jon York   2019

I wanna make
love to your mind

until your body
can't do without
            me.

I wanna
          feel you. . .

         taste you. . .  

            touch

             you. . .

       Pleasure  for a

woman is connected

           through

        her heart. . .                                                         Jon York  2020

and through her mind. . .

Touch her mind and

her body becomes a wonderland.

I hunger for your taste, your kiss,                                      

the feel of your soul touching mine. I need to be touched by you.

Regret nothing
and be grateful for what you are
and what you have
whether it is good or bad
and know that wealth
is not possession but enjoyment
so be grateful for the people
throughout your life that made you happy
especially the ones who made
your soul blossom
as we can learn much from those
who have gone before us.

Don't be afraid to step off
of the accepted path
and head off in your own direction
if your heart tells you
that it is the right way to go
and always believe that
you will succeed at whatever you do
and wherever you go
because you never know
how strong you are
until being strong is the only choice
that you have.

Don't worry about whether
your beautiful or you are ugly
because by the time that we are eighty
we will all look the same
even after playing our little game
so just hang in there
and everything will be all right
and try to get some sleep
at night.

As we go through life
we learn that they can't teach you
everything that you need to know in School
like teaching you how love somebody
with all that you have
nor can they teach you
how to be famous
and they can't teach you
how to be rich or how to be poor
and most of the time
they will just show you the door
becasuse they will never
teach you how to walk away
from someone
that you loved and who
you thought was
that someone who was sent to you
from above.

They don't teach you
what to say to someone who is dying
or teach you how to stop crying
as you watch them leave
or how to deal with
someone's continuous
lying .

I've done it all starting
with answering the call
for my Country in a meaningless war
that left me with only
trying to find a door
that would lead me out
of my pain and I've been rich
and I've been poor and
all of the dead space in between
and so much I have seen
that I will never forget
and I am still trying to find that door
to my happiness.

Don't judge me if you don't
know a thing about my wants and needs
or I will drop you to your knees
because I have been knocked down
so many times and left for dead
by those who are not very well read
but I keep getting back up
because that is me
and what I do better than anything
so it would seem.

On the down side of this wild ride
of the boomer generation
I try to finish out this ride
as I watch so many dropping
by the wayside but so many are still  
waiting to just turn the page
with no rage.

Never regret anything
that made you smile even if
it only lasted for a very short while
and try to remember that
your happiness is all up
to you.

While humanity sleeps in the night
all I do is write
and my words and my tears
have flooded Valley's without
a single solitary sound
but for me sometimes the Sun shines
but the clouds always seem to return
so I guess I'll just never learn
but I do know that when knowledge
speaks wisdom listens.                                      Jon York              2012

The
first person you
         think of
           in the
          morning,
               or
         last person
             you
        think of at
            night,
        is either the
            cause
          of  your
        happiness
                or
        your pain.

              Life
        is too short
              to be
      with someone
            who's
         not crazy
            about
              you.

         Listen, I'm
                a
         nice person.

             So if I'm
      an ******* to you,
          you need to
      ask yourself why.
                                                                                           Jon York   2019

The way she feels,
       her smell,
    touch  , taste,
        and how
   she  sounds  are
     all ingredients
               for
       the fix to my
          addiction.                                                                     Jon York   2019

When we are young we are
fearless but when we are old it
is a challenge just to stay alive.

Age is not a particularly
interesting subject because
anyone can get old, all you
have to do is live long enough.

Life is an amazing journey and
you alone are responsible for
the quality of it so guard well
that treasure kindness and know
how to give it without hesitation,
how to use it without regret, how
to acquire it without meanness.

Some days are just bad days,
that's all, so know that you have
to experience sadness to know
happiness.

I hope everyone reading my words
is having a really good day, and if
you aren't, just know that in every
new minute that passes you have
the opportunity to change that
and if you have enemies, it means
you have stood up for something
sometime in your life and the
gift is yours.
                                  Jon York     2016

Whenever you have
the opportunity to laugh,
laugh and whenever you have
the opportunity to dance,
dance and when you have
the opportunity to sing,
sing and one day you will find
that you have created your
own paradise.

Some see the basket half empty,
and others see it half full
while some see life as hopeless,
others hopeful but know
that gift of happiness
belongs to those who unwrap it
and know that the best thing
about the future is that
it only comes one day
at a time.

There is only one happiness in life
and that is to love and be loved
and the essence of life is
the conviction that we  
are loved for ourselves as
happiness held is the seed
and happiness shared is the flower
and it is the songs you sing,
the smiles you wear that make
the Sun shine everywhere.

Take time to laugh
because it is the music of your soul
and understand that nothing
is worth more than this day
and the gift of happiness belongs
to those who unwrap it
and it can be yours
to stay.                              Jon York    2014

The heart, such a delicate part
of the human anatomy
because it can be so easily bruised,
so easily hurt, and easily broken
but sometimes when it needs to be,
it can be one of the strongest parts
of our body and it will
carry you through when
all else has failed.

Everyone plays a part while
trying to protect their tender heart
but it breaks so easily and sometimes
it is so very difficult to repair
and make a new start.

So sometimes you have to try
to not think with your heart
but you will find that this is where
the love that you feel will always
start and that is in the heart.

Take the time to think about
what you are doing before
you involve your heart if you can
but remember the heart
is always hungry for love
and that it has to be fed
or you will just feel dead.

Give love to others
and you will receive
all of the love that you need
but learn to protect your heart
from the very start.             Jon  York            2013

My soul made love  to your soul long
before our bodies   met.   When I first
laid  eye  on you  I   recognized   you.
You  held  my  future  in  your  hands.

Do you really think you have  a choice
in loving someone? The measure will
always be the soul picks who you love
and your heart seals  the  deal.

How   little  choice  we  have   over   such
things when  your heart   knows what  it
wants and your soul knows when it's real.

If   the  universe   sends  you  signs   and
reminders of you and your twin flame,  it  is
asking  you  to  get back into alignment
with  love.

On the  twin flame  journey we're faced
with all of our past darkness as it comes
to  be  released.   Remember  that    the
hopelessness,   the jealously,   the anger,
the sadness and the insecurities about
who we are, they're just energy patterns
along the way.

We are pure  and light, clear the negativity
- experience  the joy of  returning  to  our  
souls  true  essence knowing that you and
I are embers from the same fire, we are
dust from the same star, we are echoes
of the same love.
                                                           ­                            Jon York   2020

Your
pretty
much
my
most
favorite
   of
   all
time
   in
  the
history
    of
   ever.
                                                                                      Jon York   2019

The hours go by like minutes
and the weeks go by like days
as the years keep flying by
and we look at our reflection
and think about the many
things that we could have done
if we had only been able to
stop our minds from wondering
about what we left behind.

I never thought I'd be alone
this far down the line and
sometimes I think that maybe
it was all nothing but wasted time.

So I live from day to day and
dream about tomorrow and wonder
what I am going to say next about
life and its pains and sorrows.

Love has come and love has gone
so many times and in so many
different ways but it never stays
and it always leaves me with so many
rhymes about love and thoughts of
maybe tomorrows.

Seems like happiness is only reserved
for some but we soon discover that
life is really only what we make it and
we learn how to take it and how not
to fake it.

Sometimes in order to keep it together
we have to leave it alone so love
what you have before life teaches
you to love what you lost.
                                                            Jon York     2014

Love
   is the
    sole
  reason
       I
  feel like
     I do
  and with
     each
   passing
   morning
         I
  am reborn
      anew
   and with
   the colors
         I
      paint
         I
  can't quite
     capture
        the
        hue.
                                ­       Why  poetry, you  ask?
                                                       ­ because  of  life,  I answer.
                                                         ­                                     Jon York  2019

I   firmly   believe
it's  the   reaching
for things we have
no business reaching
for, that makes the
human experience
so beautiful.

The  reach   for  the
sky   when   we've
no  means to touch
it.    Still  we  reach.

Sometimes life slaps
you in the face with
beauty,    screaming
at you to take notice.

Other times it whispers
in   your  ear  and  just
suggests that you stop,
look  up,  and  take    a
deep breath.
                                                                                        Jon York    2019

Embrace
          uncertainty,
              some of
              the most
              beautiful
       chapters  in our
  lives won't have a title
           until much
    later in our time here
          on this earth .

     Today I want to think
       about all that you
are instead of all that you
                are not.

      Your ability to listen
to  and  take  action  based  on
          your inner voice -
  regardless of how you feel,
          other influences
        or temptations you face -
               is the key to
               self  mastery.

                       The
               impossible
                   is often
                      only
                the untried.
                                                                                 Jon York   2019

The  best
          thing
  about memories
             is
        making
          them.

        You  and  I,
            where
        TOGETHER  
           meets
         FOREVER.

        With you
         come the
         moments
            when
          we  fully
        realize what
                   it
              means
     to love, be loved
            and have
       an  inseparable
                 bond
       that two people
                 share.
                                                                                           Jon York  2019

If you don't
let the past
die, then it
won't  let
you live.

Do not give
your past the
power to define
  your future.

Two things prevent
us from happiness:
living in the past,
and observing
      others.

Care about what
other people think
and you will always
be their prisoner.
                                                                                          Jon York    2021

I will love you
    until the
   last breath
leaves my body
    or yours.
                                                                                           Jon York   2019

You are the love
     of my life
    and the life
    of my love.

            I
         love
         being
        yours.

          You
          own
           my
         heart
          and
           my
           ***.

       Your were
         nothing
           I ever
        expected,
            but
         ended up
           being
        everything
         I've ever
          wanted.                                                                Jon York   2019

As human beings
we risk looking like a fool
for love because
we have dreams for the adventure
of being alive.

But as so often happens
we are opened by life's betrayals
or we are closed
from fear of further pain
but still want that chance
to dance in the rain.

How many of us
never realize that our feelings
toward others
are determined by
our feelings toward
ourselves.

Be realistic and remember
the limitations of being human
and remember
if you can't love yourself
you can't love others.

Let go when
you're hurting too much
and give up when
love isn't enough.

We must learn
to move on when things
are not like before
and know that there
is someone out there
who will love you
even more.

Be true to yourself
even if you disappoint others
and if we must
bear the accusation of betrayal
don't betray your
own soul.

See life's beauty
even when it is not pretty
and be able
to live with failure
even if it isn't yours.

Don't cry
because it is over but smile
because it happened
and realize you only
live once but if
done right once is
all you need.

When life offers you
a dream that is far beyond
what you had ever hoped for
don' t grieve
when it comes to an end
just go confidently
in that direction.  

Live the life
that you have imagined
and do more than just exist
but live knowing
that where there is love
there is life.

For some reason
we never see things
as they are
but we see them as we are
because that is part
of the limitations of being human
and it is better to be hated
for what you are
than loved for what
you are not.

Sometimes we
are beautiful maybe
not in looks but in what we say
and just in what we are
so know life is
to be enjoyed and  not
just endured
and know that
to someone you
are a star.                           Jon  York                                2012

I   AM  THANKFUL  FOR....
                                         paw prints on the floor

                    SLOBBERY  KISSES  ON  MY  FACE
                        nose prints on my windows

                             dog hair on my clothes and bed sheets

                      NO  ROOM  IN  MY  BED

                      For there will come a day when
                       these things will be missed.

                     MY  SUNSHINE   DOESN'T COME  FROM  THE  SKIES

                       It comes from the love
                                                that's in my dogs eyes.
                                                                                                Jon York   2019

Time passes as the years go by
bringing many mental and many
physical changes to each and every
one of us and we look in the mirror
we discover our face and body are
not the same anymore.

Nothing is fixed as everything is
always permanently changing because
change is part of our existence and
its foundation.

One day life is serious and the next day
it is meaningless and one day we are
in so much pain and the next day we
are measuring and broadcasting to
the world our gain.

One day we are crying and the next
day we are wondering why as we
laugh about it and wonder why we
believed such ridiculous ****.

Realize that we are who we are and
the past never returns and know that
we will be someone different in the future
and know that resisting change is like
trying to hold water in your hand.

Change is life and life is change and
the meaning of it all is that there is
no meaning and as the wheels keep
turning the Sun will keep shining just
as the stars will keep falling and the
moon will keep shining in this world
where we are really nothing more than
a microscopic speck of nothingness in
a giant universe.
                                                  Jon York      2015

The fear from combat in a war
doesn't just go away, you just
have to learn how to use it
and I choose to write because
it is my escape and it gives me
such a needed break from all
of those ugly thoughts.

I wrestle with the demons of
doubt, with my past failures,
with my injuries, with that
unrelenting voice that tells me
to stop life and to give up living,
but I was once a Marine, one of
the chosen few, and from
the Corps I  knew one thing
and that is I will be
victorious.

I sometimes have to walk
backwards so that I can see
the road I just walked and
can connect with my inner self
and as a writer I can look at
my canvas from a different
perspective turning bad events
into beautiful words.

Life provides the contours and
as poets we provide the shading
and the color knowing that the
wheels will keep turning, the Sun
will keep shining, just as the stars
will keep falling and the moon
will keep shining.                         Jon York         2014

You can't use
up creativity.
The more you
use, the more
you have.
                                                                                      Jon York   2019

I was made
     by the wind,
  wicked and free,
to carve out my own
     crazy destiny,
    to find a place
     in this world
    where I can be
the most authentic
     version of me.
                                                                                               Jon York   2019

It's  you
      and  me,
       and no
       matter
  what comes,
      there  is
   nothing we
       cannot
     overcome.
         I am
  here for you
     whenever
      you want
    or need me,
       always.

       And you
        should
      know this
      and only
             by
     weathering
    the greatest
     storms can
             we
  appreciate the
           most
      beautiful
          skies.
                                                                                     Jon York   2019

You are a risk,
      a mystery,
    and the most
certain thing I've ever known.
                                                                                             Jon York   2019

I hope you wake  up everyday  knowing  

I need your voice. I hope you never stop

believing in  the magic  of  shooting stars

and  may  the  earth  keeps  you  grounded

enough to make the right  choices and may 

your dreams keep you forever in love  with  

imagination.

I hope you never settle for loveless commitments,

or  for just living day to  day with  sad  eyes just

to  exist,  and  when  your   heart  is  shattered

glass  beneath  your  tear  filled  hands,  I  hope

you  remember  every  war  you have  ever won.

It  takes one  moment to hate who you  are and

a  lifetime  to  remember  how  to  love  yourself

again  and ­ this  is  the  most  important  war  to  

ever win.
                                                            ­                             Jon York   2019

back then. . .
so young and so full of life as
I tried to have as much fun as
I could with so many lovers
that came and went like night
and day as so many wanted my
love but I couldn't stay because
it just wasn't my way but I learned
from those mistakes and was able
to find the causes of my problems
and eliminate them.

back then. . .
I didn't know where to begin or if
it would ever end so I just didn't
pretend because life isn't like the
movies where everybody wins and
my words come from within while
some from real dark places I have
been in and some ugly faces I have
seen in what sometimes feels like
a dream.

back then. . .
I was sharp and tight just looking
for a fight when I was a soldier
making one those many one-shot
one -**** missions that I was so good at
or trying to hold a useless hill in a war
no one wants to remember but will
never let go.

and now. . .
I write my thoughts in an attempt
to escape those demons that invade
my head and want me dead and it
is day to day hoping that I will be
given just one more heart to hold
and just one more night to get it right
with just one more lover to get me
through another night.

and now. . .
I have learned to be here now
because now is all that we have
and when you are here, you are
here and when you are gone, you
are gone so you have to realize
that it isn't a problem to be gone
as long as you are really here
when you are here.

but now. . .
if I were to leave and never come back
no one would care for real love seems
now so rare and it just seems to be
hit and miss...sadness then bliss all at
the whim of the mind but now if
things go wrong I don't quit but I stick
to the fight nor do I give up though
the pace seems slower because who
knows I might succeed with just one
more blow and it is no longer for show.      
                                                               Jon  York       2013

There  isn't  a   way  to
categorize or  quantify,
classify,   or    compute
the need I have for you.
There aren't the words,
there aren't the equations,
there isn't the time.

Give me an eternity and
I'll just  barely  call  out
your name.

You should be held like
a diamond and a bomb.
      Loved  as  if  it's
dangerous to drop you.

I'll  be  the  sun,  you  be
the moon.  Let  me ****
the darkness  out of you.
I'll push you to embrace
change. I am not an easy
lover. I  will push  your
buttons   on   purpose
some  days, but  I   will
always bring the biggest
guns  to  your   wars.

You deserve to be fought
for.     Remember   that.                                             Jon York   2019

The  past few  years  may or
may not, have been easy, if
they have not been easy,
they have taught you how
strong you are.

Make 2023 the best year of
your life so far, whether you
are old or young.

Let your wounds be healed,
your apologies be accepted,
your generosity expanded,
your love educated.

May your desires be clarified,
your untold stories be heard,
your insight heightened,
your load lightened.

See your wildness rejuvenated,
your courage stoked,
your fears dissolved,
in the year of 2023.    
Happy new year.                                                            ­                
                                                                ­                              Jon York  2022

The next chapter
is going to be amazing.
                                                                                   Jon York   2019

Love  can't exist
without   fear. If
the   thought  of
losing.  someone
doesn't  scare the
****  put  of   you,
then it's not  love.
                                                      ­                                        Jon York   2019

She walked through the door, her head looking down, perhaps scared to look at me for fear of what she may see. When in reality she was just scared of our first meeting in over 50 years, a length
of time that would bring anyone to tears.

I looked at her as she trembled and I said, "do you know why after all of this time I am still here?" "Because when love is true, it waits and as we slipped into an intimacy from which we never recovered, I said "guide me home, for you are the moon of my life, guide me home." "Let us make quiet love, soft sighed and slow stirred; glancing glazes and graceful gasps." "Swallow your loudest screams and yell instead with squeezing hands."

Some souls choose to wear their hearts on their sleeves, but I, brave or stupid or maybe both have chosen instead to wear mine on yours. Her love. . .simple, uninhibited, child like, spontaneous, filled with touching, poetry. She never grew up. .thank God!

Like a hummingbird in flight, always looking for a place to rest for the night, as she is weary from her travels afar and with natures careful planning she will touch the flowers of your soul, then wait for understanding'
                                                  ­                                     Jon York   2024

The one constant
in life is change
so you learn
to anticipate it
and you learn
to welcome it
and you  learn
to always
expect it.

Alone
with my thoughts
and alone
with my doubts
and alone
with my fears
but with her
I find the courage
for no more
tears.

Things change
as she comes
into range
and as  she
comes to me
we make the
exchange.

Her love
is strong
and she knows
it isn't wrong
and it is
change for her
and change for me
but we both
knew that
it was coming
because we both
could see.

We both
anticipated it
as she has
become
the one constant
in my life.                        Jon  York            2012

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

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

Do the earth a favor,
          don't  hide  your  magic.
                 The stars would be
       so proud to know their atoms
              created somebody
                          like you.
              Magic tumbles from your
                 pretty lips, and when
          you speak the language of the
     universe ---- the stars sigh in unison.

               And when I touch you
          it is as if the stars are dancing
                     across my skin. and
                        I say to you,
          "you blush like an ocean in love,
                    wild with blueness,
         and you are your own standard
                            of beauty."
               Understand that women
       like you don't happen often and
   never  forget  how  rare  you are so seek
               only those who fan your
                                 flames.  

                   And  understand  it's
            your heart of gold & stardust soul
       that make you beautiful and you will be
             too much women for every man
      until you find the right one and you know
                that I'm the only one who
                         makes you glow.
                                                           ­                         Jon York  2019

Everyone wants to
                      be the sun,
         to brighten up someones
                 life, but why not
           be the moon to shine
                   on someones
                   darkest hour?

                 And if you are
        to love, love like the moon
                 loves. It doesn't
            steal  the night.  It  only
                 unveils the beauty
                     of the days

                  Love me like
           the moon intended, all
              the  way  through
                   the darkness.

                 The sun loves
            the  moon  so  much,
                 he dies every
          night to let her breathe.

             Never save things
          for special occasions.
                Being alive is
        the only special occasion
                       there is.
                                                            
                                                                                            Jon York   2019

Realizing that my pain
that resulted from past failures
was only temporary because
forgetting that past knowing
that foregiveness does not change
what happened
I am finally able
to move on as the other half
of my heart comes
home.

It does let me take
the first step torward
growth and creation as each time
that one loves is the only time
and a difference of object
does not alter singleness of passion
but merely intensifies it.

I knew that her love
was the other half of my heart
on the day that she came to me
and said that she loved me
and I could feel that love
when she talked to me hearing it
in her voice like a tone
that only I could hear.

Knowing that I have loved her
in numerous forms, numerous times,
life after life, age after age forever
our final journey now begins
as I dip my feather into the inkwell
of the sunset and write about her
sending my love to the
treasure of her heart of which
my heart is now
a part.

I can not take for granted
our future knowing that we have
the love of each other
and more importantly
we have ourselves as we touch
and our hearts became whole
once more and our love
continues to grow
and we both know that our love
for each other exceeds
the need for each other.                     Jon    York           2013

Everything
     you want  is
     on   the  other
      side of fear.
                                                                                              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

What                                                             ­   I
if the                                                           never
waves                                                      ­   want to
  get                                                         ­      stop
bigger                                                      ­  making
   to                                                            mem­ories
make                                                         with you
  you                                                       and know that
stronger.                                                   ­   hearts
                                                       ­            like ours
   Today                                                       are not
  is gonna                                                  designed
 ­   be a                                                          to beat
  good day                                                  separate
   ­   and                                                           ­ for
  here's why:                                                 long.
                                                           ­           
                                                                ­       They
   because                                                      been­
    you're                                                    ma­de that
     you                                                            wa­y.
and that's                                                    
   enough.                                                  I count the
                                                        syllables of your laughter
Good things                                                 and                        
    happen                           ­            wait for the line breaks of       
My love is real                                 your long deep breaths.
    we will                                   
    be okay.                                                            ­                                 
                                                           I may be a writer but
                                                             ­  you are a poem
                                                            ­  and you spill out
                                                          lik­e ink onto the paper
                                                           ­       of our days.
                                                           ­                                  Jon York  2019

Words of my love for her
come every day,
I just don't know what else to say.
Her eyes show the real  beauty,
that is relected in her soul.

The passion that she shows,
and her beauty as a woman,
with the passing years only grows.

Her love appeared to me
out of nowhere and along
with it came the tears.

They were tears of joy
because we finally found
one another after all
of these years.

We share so much more
then either knew was possible,
and the sixty years that it took
to find her seemed but the
blink of an eye.

Time doesn't matter now,
what is important is that
we are together and every
day that we have is a special
blessing from above.                  Jon York      2011