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

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

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

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

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

No one sees what you see,
   even if they see it too.
        She embraced
           the chaos
    as it painted her life
       with purpose
      knowing that the
   heart will  sometimes
                 break,
    to make a better shape
        and she said to me,
          "no one's soul
               is pure,
      we are not here to
            stay clean."
                                                                         Jon York   2019

I
  spend
     too
   many
   hours
      in
     my
    head,
wondering
  whether
       I
    spend
   nearly
       as
    many
        in
     your
     head.

       In
     your
hesitation
        I
   found
      my
  answer.
We are all just fighting to survive a world where "I miss you" doesn't mean I'm coming back and "I love you" doesn't mean I'm here to stay and "I' changed my mind" means you lied on purpose and just didn't want to say you lied so you said "I changed my mind." Why is it when the story ends we begin to feel all of it"?  
                                                          ­                               Jon York   2019

Surrounded by people
yet I am so alone left in a hole,
deep, dark and cold,
bought and sold but change
is constant be it for
better or worse.

Back and forth I go
while life just seems so slow
during these times
but I understand that the
highs and lows that come and go
are just part of the story
and that is just the
way it is.

Pretend and the lies
will never go away and soon
a friend you won't have
so just be real and life
will seem a steal.

Love deeply
and what you reap will fit
very neatly and it
is something that you
can always keep.

I am who I am
and what you see
is what you get
as long as you don't forget
to tell the truth.

I do what I do
and everything is different
but nothing changes
and I realize that it is
not happiness that makes
us grateful but gratefulness
that makes us happy.                  Jon York                            2012

Welcome to the rest of your life
and try to remember
that the future is always uncertain
and that the end may
always be near so hold on
to what you hold to be dear
because when it is your time
it is your time
and you will be gone
like a good rhyme.

Get rid of the pain
from people and things
that you thought were here
to stay but only seemed to last
in what seemed like just a
few short days.

Forget about that love
that you gave but was not returned
and all of those dreams
that passed before your eyes
and for which you
so yearned.

People and things quickly
become the past so enjoy them
while they are here
because so fast you look up
and they are gone
and you didn't even get a chance
to say "so long."

If you don't know where you are going
any road will get you there
so choose carefully the path you take
and avoid those traps
you were caught in before
and know that there is always
so much more then what
meets the eye.

Realize that it is better
to have given too much than
not enough because
in the end all you will do
is lose or make a friend
and you don't have
to pretend.                                          Jon York                  2012

Meet me  where  the
stars  gather to make
          love to the moons,
                 we'll  find our  world
                       there.
                                                                                           Jon York   2019

I
        realized
           that
             if
         I didn't
       embrace her
   madness, then
          I would
     never taste her
             magic.
      I didn't want
         to fall in
        love or need
          someone.
                I
        really didn't
     want anything,
but then you appeared
              and I
started wanting everything.
        I never craved
  attention, until I tasted
             yours.
You didn't want a prince
        on a white horse,
    you wanted a ******
    who makes you laugh,
             well here
     I am for your pleasure.                                            Jon York   2019

I  am  your  dark
       Fairy Tale  and  you  
         are my Twisted
              Fantasy,

       and together we
           make magic.
                                                          ­                              Jon York   2019

Every day we have to wade through
a  relentless surge of  soul-less  facts.
The experience  tends to shoot down
our sense of wonder.

Every  day  we  are  over-exposed  to
cynical narratives ****** free of delight
and mystery, which is why we make
strenuous efforts to keep our world enchanted
and why we are constantly feeding our
sense  of  wonder  and  enchantment.

What  we call the beginning is often the
end and to make an end is to make a
beginning.  The  end is where we start
from. When  do we become aware of
those things that we didn't even know
we didn't know?

We are endlessly creating ourselves, so
it would seem that we need magic every day.
                                                                                   Jon York   2022

Poetry doesn't
            have  to rhyme, it just
     has  to  touch  someone where
            your hands couldn't.

                 A poem begins
          a  lump  in  my  throat, a
                   sense of what's
                           wrong,
                      what's right.
                 A homesickness. A  
                       love sickness.

                       Why poetry?
               I  am  asked,  I  answer,
                   "because of life."

                      I don't want
                 just words from you,
                     the one who is
             supposedly  the  center
                        of my world.
              If  that's  all  you  have  
                           for me,
                     you'd  better  go.
          We whisper lies to ourselves
               and forget that reality
                   is a light sleeper.
                                                                                        Jon York   2019

Find my hand
in the darkness
    and if we
   cannot find
     the light,
          we
   will always
    make our
        own.
                                                                              Jon York   2019

Life takes many
strange turns and sometimes
we just never seem to learn
as we keep making
the same mistakes
over and over again
seemingly enjoying
the burn.

So much pain
but sometimes the pain
feels so good
leaving us to wonder
"how could that pain
be turned into gain?"

If it doesn't **** you
it makes you stronger
and allows you
to live a little bit longer
so just relax
and don't do anything
that might hurt you
until you have all
of the facts.

I choose to write poetry
to ease the pain
and to block those memories
of having played along
with those stupid
little games from all
of those no names
that I am trying to forget
and replace with
thoughts of a  new love
and new memories
that we will create
in the future.

I am still alive
despite every ones
******* jive and stupid lies
and realize that if
they didn't **** me that
they only made me stronger
and as a result
I am going to be around
for awhile longer.                          Jon   York          2013

"Be gentle with me,"
  she whispered.
" Be sweet and kind,"
"Who am I kidding?"
    " Flip me over"
  "pull my hair,"
          "bite me,"
"Do whatever
          you desire,"
"Whatever floats
          your boat."
                                                                                 Jon York   2019

When  people  ask  me,
   "what do you do?"

  I  always  tell  them,
   "whatever it takes."
                                                                                          Jon York   2019

Burn out
      the
   stars
   with
     me.  

And in
     every
      life
     we fall
    like
    stars
   into each
\    other's
skies
     and we
     dream
       our
   way into
       each
     other's
    destinies.              
      The whole                     I exist too much,
     world                                  I feel too much,
      is built                                   I think too much,
      on                                             reality is crushing the life out of me.
    two words:                      
                                    ­           And in the end I will seek you out
    " what if "                                                                ­  amongst the stars.

                                              The space dust of me will whisper
                                                         "I love you" into the infinity of the
                               Jon York   2019                                             universe.

What If the waves get
bigger
to make you stronger.
                                                                                   Jon York   2019

I'd rather
            live  a  life  of

                'Oh   wells' 

             than a life of

                 'What   if's.
                                                           ­                                    Jon York   2019

Too often
you're wearing
too much,
peel it off you,
strip it
down,
and I'll show you
what I mean by
adored.
                                                                                          Jon York    2019

I always knew that somehow
I would get by
but sometimes I had to cry about
the things I did and the things
that I should have done and
if I had then maybe
I could have won.  

Was it just about the money
and if that is all it was
then I find that really funny
because money isn't really
all that it takes to have a life
that is sunny.

Maybe it is about the love
that you give
and the love that you recieve
and how much you really believe
in yourself and what you really are
and not what others
think you are.

Don't find it necessary
to pretend to be a star
and try to accept who
and what you really are
and then you really
can be a star.

Follow the road
that you have chosen to follow
and if you are real this
will help you to seal the deal
and you won't have to steal
and realize that if you don't have
a chosen path not  just any road
will get you there.

If my words don't make sense
then just get off of your fence
and do what is right
and then you may live to see
another day and night
and then maybe you will see
what life is really about
and maybe then you
can get it right.                          Jon   York           2012

Don't ask me,
what I'd do for love,
    ask me what
     I wouldn't.
                                                                                                Jon York   2019

And
             suddenly
             all these
                songs
                 are
               about
                 you.
                And
                 still
                    I
                cling
                   to
                what
                once
                 was.
                                                            ­                           Jon York   2019

I am not the jealous type,
but what's mine is mine.
                     End of story.
                                                                                       Jon York   2019

What does the word Love mean?
is it only a dream or is it two
people sharing their lives  together
forever.

Is Love a promise that we make?
a promise to only be with  each
other or a promise that there will
be no other.

Is Love a feeling or a thought?
or maybe it is something that
we all want.

Is Love a choice that we make or
maybe a chance that we take.  

I wish you could see what I feel
when I hear your voice because
it gives me hope and I can feel
its love as my heart beats for you,
my eyes search for you and my
love always wants to be near you.

I have loved you for so long with
all my heart and soul and after
being apart for so long you found
me broken and made me whole.

I honor your light, your love, your
truth, your beauty and the peace
within you because it is also within
me and in sharing these things we
are united and we are the same and
we are one and we both know and
understand that happiness is a
choice, not a result so we breathe,
believe, and receive.
                                                           Jon York    2018

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

We are not
             young-
                 70,
       and I know  to
 some  that  is  very old,
      but our minds stay
    stay young and our
remaining time here I know
         will be so good
               because
        making you *****
          and making you
          smile are my two
            favorite things.
               I  need   to
              be  touched
                 by  you.
                My  body
                wants you
                   badly.

                YOU. ME.
              I  Love  that
                   feeling.
               your hands
            all over my body.
            
      And I know that what we
              have left will be
      so special because  there is
so  much  love  between  us  now
       and there has been for
                   54 years.

                                                         ­                         Jon York   2019

You brought my emotions alive again,
you made made laugh, you made me cry
and you made me feel alive.
Together we made the past the past,
knowing that we are the future.
You make me smile in the morning and
I kiss you softly to sleep at night.

There is a special bond that no one can see,
I speak your thoughts before you say them,
and you know what is on my mind before I
tell you, and it seems that you always kinow
what to do.

Our hearts have found a home, but the path
was sometimes rocky and  paved with tears,
but  each of the steps toward one another
made our joining much more sincere.

Real love sometimes we have to work  to find,
especially when life gets in the way, but this
kind of love is worth  fighting  for  because
this kind of love will  always  stay.

The search is over because this love is just
too strong to deny, and I don't even have to
ask why. You inspired me, is What You Did
and I give thanks for each new day with
you at my side.                                           Jon York

"I  like  living.  I have been  wildly,  despairingly,  acutely
miserable,  racked with sorrow; but through  it  all  I  still
know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."  
                                                                          Agatha Christie

As  humans  we  need  regular doses of  unreasonable  beauty,
sublime anomalies, beguiling ephemera, and inexplicable joys.

I  chose  to  be  optimistic,  it  feels  better.  I choose also  to  be
truthful, gentle, and fearless.

Time is really the  only capital that  I or any human being  has,
and it is the only thing we can't afford to lose. Let your choices
reflect your hopes, not your fears.

The past is where we  learn the lesson. The future is where we
apply the lesson.

It is only a short trip. Enjoy it. You are not what you have done,
you are what you have overcome.
                                                       ­                                      Jon York   2024

Expect
  nothing and
   appreciate
    everything.
     Often in
  life, we forget
           the
things we should
     remember,
           and
     remember
      the things
             we
         should
          forget.
    Stop chasing
what your mind
      wants and
       you'll get
      what your
            soul
           needs.
                                                                                         Jon York   2019

Be you.
   The world will
           adjust.

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

        The  distance
   between    dreams
      and reality is
      called   action.

       What consumes
             your mind
              controls
              your  life.

            When life
           gets  blurred,
                adjust
           your   focus.

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

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

The longer it takes to happen,
   the more you'll appreciate
      it when it does.

I like the name of this ---
   WHEN  IT  DOES
that sounds so positive,
I just want to keep saying
     it over and over.
   WHEN   IT  DOES,
   WHEN   IT  DOE.S
                                                                                      Jon York   2019

She  risked  heartbreak
       for she craved
         feeling alive,
   an untamed creature
     addicted to love...
    She wanted to burn
          with desire.
       To be set free
    while  flying  high
     on broken wings.
   Love   is  not  scary,
   when it's meant to be.
                                                                                                Jon York   2019

Stars
        shine
     brightest
        when
            it
            is
           the
       darkest.
                                                                                    Jon York   2019

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

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

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

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

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

When a poet cries,
tears are his words,
and so many are
coming from this poet,
as I write looking for
a rhyme because my heart
aches so much  it seems
a crime.
This paper is my sleeve,
wiping away the tears
that form a delicate weave
deciding what to say about her,
each teardrop with a life
of it's own as they fall
down on to the paper.
I will continue to cry until
the right words are found,
because  my love for her
was not a gift to be given,
it was a love that wanted
to be accepted and accepted
I thought it was when
she said to me,
"Could you really be the one
I've searched for in
all of my sixty years," the one
I've dreamed about
and shed so many tears?"
going on to say,
"thank you Jesus for this man
I've looked for so very long
and I will treat him like the gold
he is and sing my happy song."
This love I'll never lose I thought,
and this is a joy I cannot refuse.
But her parting left in my heart
a big hole and she does not wilt
at my cries and I know she
does not fret, for in her
I found reprise.
The love she gave me
I won't forget, but my
loneliness harms me,
becoming darkness,
a broken heart startled
into awareness.
I am horribly ashamed
because I find I've gotten lost
with no one to find me,
but I only blame myself.
Mornings are the hardest
for me because she is all
I see in my thoughts,
but by afternoon the pain
is mostly gone but thoughts
of her never leave and
I continue to grieve.
So happy for two years in
what now seems such
a short time and now all
I am left with is a rhyme.            Jon York    2011

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

Nothing can break the souls bond
between twin flames and no matter
how long you are apart or what
happens you are always connected
and sometimes two souls are even
created together and in love before
they're born.

Once a deep and powerful connection
between two people has been made
they become a vital part of each
others lives and there is no
separating them and no measure
of distance or duration of silence
can prevent the outbreak of smiles
and laughter or the strong desire
to leap into each other's arms when
they come together once more.

My soulmate lives her life like a
flame; A dance of purposeful chaos,
Her enchanting light can guide you
and quell your fears....She's hot;
warming those who respect her
and burning those who don't..She
is a flame with an unforgettable
glow...A weak man will try to dim
her luminance ... but her Soulmate
will have pleasure in fanning the
blaze as I try to do but "soulmate"
is an overused term, and a true
soul connection is very rare, but
very real and a soulmate will always
be someone who will make you the
most "you" that you can possibly
be as she does for me.

She is a mystery to me, yet so
familiar like a song I've never heard
before and a tune I've known my
entire life, knowing that we are
spiritual beings in human form
with a desire  to simply connect
with a soul who feels like home.

The moment our souls connected,
our hearts became one and now every
day that I communicate with her I
can feel our love continue to grow
stronger...stronger with loyalty,
respect and encouragement and
I am so happy to share my life with
her spirit and as we grow old
together,as we continue to change
with age, there is one thing that
will never change...I will always
keep falling in love with her.                          Jon York   2018

Fall in love                                      the key

  with the                                     to happiness

person who                                          is

    makes       ­                                     lower

  you love                                     expectations

the person                                        lower

    you are                                     nope, lower

      when                                       there you go.

you're around

      them.

                                            ­                                    Jon York   2018

You   have
          opened
         my heart,
          my  dear
          so   now
         enter there
         and grant
          me peace
           and love
          and make
           me want
             to LIVE,
             not just
             survive;
             not just
                exist.
                 LIVE...

     Love recognizes no
     barriers,  it  jumps
   hurdles, leaps fences,
   penetrates  walls  to
  arrive at its destination
   full of hope and if
someone makes you happy,
     make them happier.

      It's ironic that you feel
most alive when your heart
       skips a beat and mine
skips a beat every time I look
        at  you,  touch  you,
           or  kiss you.                                                            Jon York   2019

***
so
good
you
can
feel
  it
when
you
think
about
   it.
I just
wanted
  you
     to
know...
   that
      I
   think
    you                                     I think we should do
    have                                               something that makes us moan.
       a
    nice
    ****.
                                                                                           Jon York   2019

I am just glad to be here,
in this place with the one
that I hold so dear,
this beautiful Angel that
came out of nowhere, with
so much to say, I give
thanks for this day, because
I know that she is here to stay,
and we know together we
will win this race. I am so
happy to be Where I am Today.

I look at her and just don't know
what to say, except that my love
is true, and so are you, and that
you will never be blue.

For her I changed my life, this
lady that will be my wife,
together our lives will never
be the same, because it is the
start of a brand new game,
and eternal is the flame.

It just gets better every day,
and I still look for the right words to say,
so for now I just hope and pray that
tomorrow that I will be given another
day, with her by my side, and the
only three words I ever need to say
are " I love you".

Loves, like the years,come and go
so fast. A blink and they are gone.
But we know this one is meant to last.
However long we are together we
both know we have to forget the past.
We must live these precious moments
in this place that we are in right now,
this place Where I am today.
                                                           Jon York

Some
            people
              are
            worth  
           melting
               for.

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

Life is not happening to you.

Life is responding to you.





                                          Don't ask people for

                                          directions when they've

                                           never been where you

                                                      are going.


Work hard in silence ...................... let success be your noise.

                                                         ­                     Jon York   2019

I am forever
                    yours,
( whether you want me or not )
                                                                                                 Jon York   2019

Only you
           could  do  it.
                 Only
        you could steal
                words
             from  my
              tongue,
       heartbeats from
            my chest,
   my colorful landscapes
               from
             my eyes.
       Only you could
               touch
          hidden places,
                  fill
       the empty spaces,
                 and
             only you
               could
             whisper
        love rhapsodies
                into
            my soul.
          Only  you.
                                                                                            Jon York   2019

The magic in this world
seems to work in whispers
and   small   kindnesses.
                                                     ­                                  Jon York   2019

As   long   as
you're happy,
  who  cares.
                                                                                        Jon York   2019

why do. . .the prettiest
                  smiles always
                  hide the
                  deepest secrets
                  and

why are. . .the prettiest eyes
                   always the eyes
                   that have cried
                   the most tears.

why do. . . the kindest hearts
                   always feel the
                    most pain.

why do. . . failures often lead
                   us to success and
                   false discoveries
                   often lead us to
                   the truth.

why do. . . we hold on so
                   tightly when
                   terrified of a
                   loss and fail
                   to just let go.

why does. .happiness
                   always appear
                   to be so
                   frightening and

why don't. .we stop
                     holding on to
                     what hurts and
                     start making
                     room for what
                     feels good.           Jon York       2014

The truth is bitter
but you taste so sweet.
I held and soothed you
as I got you deep...slow
kissing into a meek
surrender.

You bring me to my knees
with just the sound of
your voice and in your
presence I melt into your hands,
you feeling the deep rumble
of  my voice as  it  coos
and comforts you.

I  feel you in  my  whole
body  and  every  inch
of my skin.

You melted into me when
I  held  you....so  why  do
your demons hurt me so?
                                                                                Jon York   2021

Forget all

           the reasons

            why it won't

            work and

             believe the

              only reason

              why it will.
                                                                                     Jon York   2019