Quietly she sits waiting,
thinking,considering, powerful
and strong, wise and knowing,
yet gentle as the dawn light
slipping softly over the mountain top,
and she is as beautiful within
as without, still and deep as the
spring of cool clean water.

What brought us together,
the woman - child and the
quiet man from a far away
land is maybe a common
thread woven into the
fabric of time.

She dreamt of me, knew me
and recognized me in an
instant by my words and
she felt my spirit reaching
out for her.

I seek this one thing, though
I don't know what it is and I
spend my time searching for
that one missing piece and
perhaps one day she will
come to me and bring with
her the quiet peace that I seek
with that breath of fresh air.     Jon York    2011

It might be dark because
sometimes we just try too hard,
so just let things happen
and lightly cope with them
while carrying no baggage...
and remove the have-not's
and the can-not's and the
do-not's from your mind
because they can be
a real grind.

Under the sun you can shine
and at nightfall you can glow
if you let your beauty
shine from inside out
and if you erase the will-not's
and the may-not's along
with the might-not's .

Release from your brain
the could-not's along with
the would-not's and the should-not's
if you ever expect to gain
anything good in this life,
and finally you have to remove
from your mind and your heart
along with your life all of the
am-not's that you have allowed
to hold you back and especially
that one thought of I am not
good enough.

First decide what you truly want
then decide that you want it
more than you are afraid of it
and know that if you love life
you might be surprised
at how much life will love
back and how things
will just seem to get
back on track.

To love is to receive a glimpse
of heaven but don't forget that
the earth delights to feel your bare feet
but never stop seeking the meaning
within yourself and your purpose
in the world.                                  Jon   York         2012

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

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

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

When something bad
happens you have
choices, you can either
let it define you or
you can let it destroy
you or you can you
let it strengthen you
but know that stars
can't shine without
darkness,so if at first
you don't succeed,
destroy all evidence
that you tried and
cleanse your mind of
anxieties and
broodings and forgive
yourself for your
transgressions and see
the beauty that surrounds
you and listen to all of
the joyous sounds of
your world and always
be aware of the marvels
in your life now and not
when you are in the
depths of despair.

Dance like no one is
watching,
Love like you've
never been hurt,
Sing like no one's
listening
Live like heaven is
on earth and be kind,
for everyone you meet
is fighting a hard battle
and every day may not
be good but there is
something good in every
day.
                                       Jon York        2016

LOVE doesn't need to be perfect,
      it  just   needs   to  be    TRUE.
                                                                                     Jon York   2019

I just want  you,  that's  all.
All your smile, your funny
laugh, your, moods, and
everything. I just want you
and I'm ready to do anything
to be your everything.

You kept your eyes locked
on mine as you opened your
robe slipping it from your
shoulders, exposing your
body to me. your eyes showed
me a mixture of hunger and
desire of such intensity that you
were both excited and a little
frightened. You took a shuttered
breath as I gathered you into
my embrace.

It  was then I  realized   that  I
was truly crazy, madly in love
with  you  as  I   whispered  to
you ,"give  me a   little  bit of
rough ***  mixed  with  some
****, slow and sweet *******."
                                                    ­                          Jon York   2018

TRUSTING
       people
          has made
                   ME
       the *******
   I AM TODAY.
                                                      Jon York    2019

TRUST                LOVE               and BEING
gets you              gets you                    REAL
KILLED               HURT                   gets you
                                                             ­ HATED                    
              
                       ­                                                                 ­       Jon York   2019

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

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

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

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

Truth Is. . .
                   What I like most about myself is that I am so
                            understanding when I do something wrong. . .
                   You had better appreciate me now and avoid the rush. . .
                   We all have one thing in common- a thing called life. . .
                    Just exactly what life is has not yet been satisfactorily
                         explained to me. . .
                    I try to take life as it comes and just hope it keeps coming. . .
                    Every time I try to take out a new lease on life, the landlord
                         raises the rent. . .
                    Win or lose. it's all right. . .
                    The world is a very strange community, but it is the only
                           one we all belong to. . .
                     Quiet people have the loudest minds. . .

Truth Is. . .
                   There has been so much concern about what might happen
                            that what is actually happening has passed almost
                            unnoticed. . .  
                    Some of the worst things I have done have probably been
                            forgotten by everybody except me. . .
                    Why is it that I so often desire the best and why do I seldom
                           get it.. .
                    I could do great things if I weren't so busy doing little things
                    I am still waiting for some public reaction to my arrival on
                           earth. . .
                    Of course I know what happiness is because I've seen
                            many pictures of it. . .
                     Intelligence is not of much use unless you are intelligent
                             enough to use it. . .

Truth Is. . .
                      The reason why most people are careful is that those who
                             weren't are no longer living. . .
                       Having lived through some bad times, I am living proof
                              that some bad times can be lived through. . .
                       Just when I nearly had the answer, I forgot the question. .
                       Don't believe everything you hear about me regardless of
                              how true it may be. . .
                       It frightens me when people suddenly start to behave
                              sensibly. . .
                       Some of my secrets have been hidden so well, I have
                               forgotten what they are. . .  
                        I wonder why it is that many of the most important
                                things are also the most boring things. . .
                         If it makes you happy, do it. If it doesn't, then don't. . .

a 10 word poem     a  7 word poem               Shining Like I Do      
      TRUTH                         A                        They gossip  about  me
                                        speaker­                   and I  wonder why and
       sounds                         of                         also   know   that   their
          like                       TRUTH                   opinions  about me  are
        HATE                         has                       not   my  prob;ems  and
           to                              no                        if  tho­se opinions  about
        those                       friends.                   me are wrong, they will
         who                                                        be   the  ones  who   will
        HATE                                                    ­  have  problems, not  me.

          the                                          ­                I  stay  kind,  committed
                                                                ­          to  love, and free  in  my
       TRUTH.                                                   authenticity.  No   matter
                                                          ­                what  they do  or  say,  I
                                                 ­                         don't   dare   doubt    my
                                                     ­                      worth  or  the beauty of  
                                                            ­               my  TRUTH.
                                                      ­                     I will  just  keep shining
                                                                ­                                       like I do.
              
                                                                                             Jon York   2019

When
someone asks
   you to listen
         to a song,
it's because
the lyrics mean
   everything
they're   trying
               to say
                  to    
                you.
                                                                                               Jon York    2019

Distance doesn't
    separate  people...      
                  silence does.
In French
you don't say,
" I miss you."
You say  "Tu Me Manques."
which means -
"You are missing from me."
                                                                                              Jon York   2019

I keep writing about you  
and I wish that
you would just go away
and leave me alone
and just get out of my head
beause it has been seven months
since you chose to walk away
but thoughts of you
are still there
every day.

Maybe the reason
I can't get rid of you
is because of all
of your lies
and my wonder why's
and the fact
that you act as if
I don't even exist
anymore and you
act like we never
even happened.

You didn't really think
I would stop existing when
you walked out of my life
after spending two years
acting like my wife.

When you looked at me
you only saw
what you chose to see
never ever really
trying to see
the real me
and you only saw
that person that
I used to be.

But after meeting you
I became so much more
but that still
didn't stop you from
walking out
that door.  

Happy hunting.                                    Jon York              2012

In six days I will turn 73.
When I was young, a little boy,
I always thought 40 was old.

When I was 40 years old,
I thought 80 was old.

Now I'm 72, I still like to rock
and roll every night and
listening to classic rock is one
of my favorite pastimes.

Nursing homes I will never go,
because I'm smart as a whip,
not thoughtless and old.

People treat me very strange,
as if I'm dying or deranged.

But I'm just fine,
now that I'm approaching 80 and
thought of as old.

I just laugh and think,
wait until they're 80 years old.                                       Jon York    2021

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

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

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

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

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

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

Love is unselfish,
understanding and
kind,for it sees with
its heart and not with
its mind.

Love is the answer
that everyone seeks...
love is the language
that everyone speaks...

Love can't be bought
it is priceless and free
and love, like pure magic
is a sweet mystery!

My true-love hath my heart
I have hers,
my heart in me keeps her
and me in one,
my heart in her thought
and senses guide  
she loves my heart, for once
it was her own.

I cherish her heart because
in me it bides
my true-love hath my heart,
and I have hers,
making two fractional lives
a whole.
                           Jon York   2018

Like a long lost lover
she came out of the night
into my arms
where she would stay
for two days and two nights
under the full moon.

Her kisses so sweet
and her touch so gentle  
we loved until noon
and through the night
like lost lovers
trying to get it right
which we did much
to our delight.

Loving, kissing
and touching
as we explored
each others bodies
like two lost souls
that had found the other
after such a long time
as our souls fit together
like a rhyme

We held each other tight
going into the night
refusing to let go
hoping that it would go slow
knowing that one
would have to go
come morning.

Morning arrived
and one was called away
but upon leaving
both knew
that we would be together
soon even if there
wasn't a full moon.                Jon  York                       2013

Everyone   must
choose   one   of
two   pains:

The pain of discipline
               or
The  pain   of   regret.

I've  found the  pain of regret to hurt
so much worse.  Discipline  I learned
in the Marine Corps because if I didn't
learn it, I was a dead man in the war I
                                                       fought.

Discipline is the
          bridge
     between goals
             and
   accomplishments.
                                                                                       Jon York   2019

Is there anything more beautiful
  in  this   life  than  two  souls
     bound only by a hunger
     to see the extraordinary
             in each other?

Trust is earned, respect is given,
and  loyalty  is   demonstrated,
betrayal of any one of these is to
                  lose all three.

                   Once in love
                    with a soul
      everything about the body
             becomes beautiful.
                                                                                Jon York   2019

Two  things  to
remember  in   life.

Take   care  of  your
  thoughts   when
  you   are   alone.

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

Success is not final just
as failure is not fatal but
it is the courage to continue
that counts so know that it
ain't easy as the days are
long and the years are short
and today you are the oldest
you have ever been and the
youngest you will ever be
again and as we get older the
less we listen to what people
say and the more we look at
what they do and we learn
that it is not the words of our
enemies we will remember
but the silence of our friends.

Your life is a story so write
well and edit often knowing
difficult roads often lead to
beautiful destinations and
life is short, so live it and
love is rare, so grab it, and
fear is awful, so face it, and
memories are sweet so
cherish them.

Know that one of the hardest
things to do in life is letting
go of what you thought was
real and remembering those
two words of six letters that
are easy to say, hard to
explain and harder to do,
"move on".           Jon York      2016

Make your intentions clear
The universe does not respond
well to uncertainty.
                                                                                                Jon York   2019

I LOVE YOU
              in  the  morning,
                       IN THE
                         afternoon,
               I LOVE YOU
                 in the evening,
               UNDERNEATH
                      the moon.

               IT WILL ALWAYS
                    be a mystery
              TO ME HOW
                       we can't forget
               THE LOVE THAT
                            forgot us.
                                                             ­                              Jon York   2019

I LOVE YOU
             in the morning
                & IN THE
                  afternoon.
              I LOVE YOU
              in the evening
          & UNDERNEATH
                  the moon.
                                                                                            Jon York   2019

I can
explain
it to you,               but            
                                              I can't
                                              understand
                                              it for
                                               you.
                                                                                                Jon York   2019

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

She is
         a
  hopeless
  romantic
     with
        a
     *****
mind and
       high
   standards.
She wants to be
     treated
   like a lady
          in
      public,
  ravaged in
    private,
        and
     wooed
         for
     eternity.
         All
  she ever wanted
           is
  unforgettable
    kisses and
  unforgettable
      laughter.                                                                   Jon York   2019

"Today is the tomorrow you worried  about
yesterday."                               Dale  Carnegie

The  universe  is  built  in such  a  way  as  to
discourage  boredom.  Just open  your  eyes
and look around you and you will never  be
bored,  I promise,  because  in  these  strange
times things are  just moving and developing
so very fast.

It seems like just the other day that I returned
home (1970) from a 13 month tour of combat
duty with the  United States Marine Corps  in
Vietnam and I  just  blinked  my  eyes and  it is
2023 and I am the father of a son and a daughter,
a grandfather of 5 beautiful grandchildren and
a great grandfather of  4 little ones.

You may underestimate the intensity of your
longing for continual transformation, but the
universe doesn't, which is why it provides you
with entertainment for your ever-shifting story
called life.

And that is why it is always revising the challenges
it sends your way, to provide your curious soul
with  a  rich variety of  unpredictable  teachings.
                                   ­                                                          Jon York   2023

The only thing
       between us...
this unbearable
       distance
this unspeakable
        craving.
                                                                         Jon York   2019

Does the sun promise to shine?

No,but it will, even behind the
darkest clouds it will,
and no promise will make it
shine longer or brighter,

for that is its fate, to burn
UNTIL IT CAN BURN NO
MORE

So is to love you forever my
promise to you?
No, but my love for you will
remain even in on the darkest
of nights, and no promise could
make it grow stronger or last
longer,
for it is my fate for my love
for you to burn  UNTIL I CAN
BURN NO MORE.

                                                          ­          Jon York   2018

I  want  your  soul
breathing heavily against my collarbone,
I want your thoughts
nibbling on my ears,
your passions
pressed against my lips,
your hopes
naked on my skin,
your opinions
wet in my hands
and your desires
letting out soft little moans
against my soul.

I want your body
pressed up against my heart,
I want your hands spreading my
thoughts,
lingering over the curves of my
passions,
gripping my
hopes,
stroking my
opinions,
and rubbing my
desires.


I want you to remember
one thing. Wherever you are and
wherever you go
you will always be loved,
until my last breath and beyond,
you will be loved.      
                                                    ­                                         Jon York   2019

Someday
we'll meet again,

in another lifetime
of course

for in this lifetime
you couldn't be mine.

I'll follow your trails
life after life  

for my soul is bound to yours...

It isn't just love ( for love is
just an illusion in this
illusionary world ).

It is a connection that goes beyond
space and time...
a connection
primordial...

We will meet again...yes my love                               Jon York   2021
again and again
until
we become one
because I'm your home,
your beginning and end.

I  just   want  to  take
you until you confess
that   you   are  mine.
And tomorrow I want
to  make   you  mine
     all over again.
                                                          ­       Jon York  2019

So many words looking for a home
or just a page to rest upon
or a rhyme to complete or a poem
that they can call home
as they look forward to the beauty
of the next moment or the next hour
and as they sink roots
into the present
their strength grows
as they think about
tomorrow.

Sometimes the world is just
too loud for these ears
that sometimes hear words
that don't need to be said
and stories that don't
need to be told
along with lies that others
thought that they
could hide.

Some things  aren't meant
to be heard and upon hearing
these things it sometimes
makes me wish
that I was deaf to
the world.

I would
rather give up
hearing those sweet
sounds like those
that lovers make
in the pre-dawn hours
of the night than
to be assaulted
by things that I never
wanted to hear.

As the world goes by
I stand before it
smiling and loving because
I have laid naked and bared my soul
and quenched my dreams
and lost my pride
beside so many
while deep inside
always true.

Again I rise out of the ashes
ready to face the world again
enslaved by poetry
and reading endless poems
and writing happy ever afters
about true love
and the one.

When I am done
I am brought back to the real world
of disappointments and cheaters
but know that if I seek
not outside that I will find
that heaven is within.

This time I found love
and my own heaven
that is here to stay
and that is all that
I need to say.

Know the value of love
and don't be tormented
by things out of your control
and know that people
will forget what you said
and forget what you did
but will never forget
how you made
them feel.
                                             Jon  York       2013

Destined
             are our two souls
     found between light and dark,
          so tender is this certainty
                      of fate.

        When the Sun finally rose,
           delicate hearts didn't
                   burn to ash.

         Sharing deep confessions
             that grow these hearts
                         to one.

          May loving be our reason
                        for living.

        I ask that you warm my heart,
            soften my rigid walls and
                    bend my pride.

            From a blight of nothing
                    is everything
              to morph otherworldly
                            in all
                      that is desire.                                        Jon York   2021

I wake up in the dark of the night
with something to write
as the words just start coming
and seem to be looking for a place to go
where they can be read
as if someone else was in my head
so I start putting these words down
and later after reading my own words
I sometimes can't hardly believe
what I just said.

Simply a muse
using my open and willing mind
to convey thoughts and inspiration
while using me as a station
so I let the words flow
looking at them in the end
wondering if these thoughts
I should show.

Failure is a teacher
and really only a slight delay
because each day is just one day
and on this one maybe
I have something to say
like past defeats were only
a detour and not dead ends.

A recent detour introduced me
to what love is and what it should
be by showing me
what I have been missing
and I was able to realize this
as we started kissing and then
becoming a pair in love.

The future is uncertain
and the end is always so very near
so don't close your eyes for too long
or your future could disappear
and understand as well as
have strength knowing that
a little love goes a long way
and a lot of love lasts forever.

Never forget that your presence
is a present to the world
and that you are unique
and one of a kind
so remember that lifes treasures
are people together
and that it is never too late
to get it straight.

Count your blesings
and not your troubles and do
ordinary things in an extraordinary way
and take the time to wish upon a star
while never forgetting
how special you are and dance
in the rain and ignore
the pain.                                               Jon York       2013

All
We
Need
Is
Us.
                                                          ­                                        Jon York  2019

I only want

two things in

this world.....


I want you.

And I want us.                          
(some ****, bacon and chocolate would be nice too.)


     I  seriously

wouldn't mind

     if you just

    grabbed my

       face and

       kissed it.                             Jon York   2018

Being alone has
      a power that very few
         people can handle.
                                                                           Jon York  2019

She throws
        wishes into the night
             and waits for
       the stars to catch them.

               I said to her
         blue eyes, "meet me
                at midnight
            in   front  of  my
                   dreams.

                We'll make a
                    fire and
             count  the  stars
                that shimmer
             above  the  trees."

                 She's more
             myself than I am.
                  Whatever
           souls  are  made  of,
                   hers and
           mine are the same and
                 her heart and
                     my heart
                     are very,
              very old friends.
                                                                                     Jon York 2019

Your heart and
my heart are
very, very, old
             friends.

  10 word story
                                                                                       Jon York   2019

It's been over forty  years,
but I still feel the tears from
thirteen months of combat in
a  no - win  situation called
Vietnam. The years just keep passing
by, and still many Vietnam
Veterans die, and no one wants
to admit why.
The anger and saddness is
still there and what makes it
worse  is a society that acts
as if they care, acting like
they know where we had to go
and what we had to do, and
now they just stare.

Our tears flow for our brothers
whose names are on that Wall,
the ones who answered the call
and gave all.

It is American tradition to honor
War Veterans, but they shut the
door on us and some just can't
forget.
For some better late than never,
but for me it just won't go away.

Now a whole new generation
in a different era thinks a  simple
" welcome home " will do. A
generation that is blind to what
went on, and the the injustice
that we were served,
a generation that looks the other
way when the homeless living on
the street try to speak .
A generation that ignores the number of
Vietnam Veterans taking their
own lives every day.
The shock of this is so much,
I  just don't know what to say.

Some of us choose to live another
day and this new generation
honoring us needs to know
that we will not just go away and
that they will have to deal with
us someday, giving more than
just a " welcome home" that
comes a little late, and they need
to know  why our minds are in such
a  f*^k^d   up state.
                              Jon York  USMC Vietnam  1969 -70

,

It is STILL THE SAME for a Vietnam combat Veteran and
I am sixty-nine and it has been forty-seven years since I
returned home to America after standing up for our flag
and fulfilling my job which was to **** and as a highly
trained Marine that is exactly what I did for 13 months,
taking many lives every day and at the end of the day all
that we could say is how many did we **** today?

They called us grunts and side by side we fought and died
fighting a war that we thought we could win and every day
and night it took all our training to survive and side by side
we fought for our flag as many of our friends returned
home in a body bag.

Seems like I write about Veterans Day every year and here
in 2017 IT IS STILL THE SAME for Vietnam combat
Veterans: we lived through the war, now we die at home,
we are suicide soldiers who beat the odds, but we die alone
without our squads, and we totally look forward to death,
so we can find peace and we can get some rest.

IT IS STILL THE SAME: we can never forget the eyes, the
death rattling sounds that our mind seeks to drown and
the labored breathing and vacant lifeless eyes of life loss
that we despise as we spend a lifetime with segmented
visions of memory recalling death and life in vivid color
images because with death and dying you never forget
the eyes, friend or foe and we still hear their cries.

2017 at home IS NOT THE SAME for there are those who
refuse to stand for our flag and continue to disrespect our
country and those who fought and died for it and to those
who choose not to stand can just get out of my land that
I stood up and fought for called America.
                                          Jon York   2017
                                    USMC Vietnam 69-70

In life, there are three

           shapes  you  should
  
            avoid:  vicious circles,

             love triangles,  and

                  squared minds.
                                                                                 Jon York   2019

As you walked through the door,
our eyes met and with no regret
I knew that I was going to spend
the rest of my life loving you.

The moment our lips touched,
I felt the longing in your heart,
and that you were ready for
a new start, and you wanted
this so much.

Your heart danced with my soul,
and  knew that it was finally whole,
at that very  beautiful moment.

Your eyes spoke a language that
I understood oh so well.  I was
like a prize fighter waiting for the
bell, ready to engage in the fight
of my life, knowing that this one
I would not lose.

Seems you always know what to say,
and when to pray.
When I try to hide my tears, you sense
them and understand my pain, and you
send your healing smile my way,
realizing that we have much to gain.

There was something so very special
that very first day, and  a year later,
and our hearts are still intertwined and
the love still remains, so sweet, so rare,
because we both acted on a dare for a
love that seems to have no rhyme or
reason, it is just there.
                                                    Jon York

We're   like   Cocoa
             and marshmallows:

                 Your   hot  and  I
              want  to  be  on top of
               you.
                               and
                   It  tastes  so  good
            because I've  been waiting
                   for  it for so long.
                                                           ­                         Jon York   2019

If you don't know
which road to take
then any one of them
will get you there
so choose carefully
or you will get lost
and you will never
know what it is going
to cost.

What will be will be
and sometimes we just
have to wait and see because
happiness is something to love
and sonething to do
and something to hope for
and we don't get
unlimited chances
to have things be the way
we want them
to be.

People say love hurts
but that is not really true
because loneliness hurts
and rejection hurts but love
itself does not
really hurt.

Everybody works so hard
to get their fill
and in the end all everybody
ever really wanted was a thrill
but the boulevard just goes on
and on and on and never
seems to end so
don't pretend because
it will be found out
in the end.

It was by chance
that I saw your smiling face
and you saw mine
and you made the call
and after talking
I was consumed by
flames of love for you
this beautiful Angel
that came to me
for love.

I know that we can
grow together and enrich
our worlds in these later years
with the love that we can share
if we choose to take
that dare.

I will love you
without knowing how or when
or from where and I will love you
straightforwardly
without complexities or pride
because I know
no other way.

Every moment
that we are together will be
the most important moment
of our lives and eventually
you will come to understand
that love heals everything
and love is really
all that there is.

Our journey to each other
took many lifetimes
and we will complete that journey
and our coming together
was was not a question of if
but was only a question
of when so let
us begin.                                       Jon  York           2012

I  CAN  AND

I WILL,

WATCH ME.
                                                                                        Jon York   2019

don't say very accurate, say exact
don't say very cute, say adorable
  "        "   very fast, say swift
  "        "   very loud, say thunderous
  "        "   very slow, say sluggish
  "        "   very shy,  say timid
  "        "   very smart, say intelligent
don't say very strong, say forceful
  "        "   very stupid, say idiotic
  "        "   very sure, say certain
  "        "   very unhappy, say miserable
  "        "   very willing, say eager
sometimes you needn't say anything
at all.
                                  Jon York    2017