Keep listening to music,
cause it gets you through
everything, I promise.
                                                                                       Jon York   2019

HAVE  hope
TRY      new things
BE         active
SEE       the good in people
SAY       "I love you" more
CHALLENGE   yourself
CHOOSE to be happy
EAT         better
ENJOY    today - (it will never be here again)
FORGIVE more readily
READ       more often (especially poetry)
BECOME  your best you
                                          
Maybe the journey
isn't so much about
becoming anything.

Maybe  it's   about
unbecoming
everything  that isn't
you so you can be who
you were meant to be
in   the  first  place.
                                                                                     Jon York   2019

The  best  love
is the one that
makes  you  a
better person,
without changing
you into someone
other than yourself.
                                                                                         Jon York   2019

Your clothes
         look
   nice on my
    bedroom
        floor.
   Yes I have a
    ***** mind
          and
   you're running
        through
            it....
         naked.
                                                          ­                                Jon York  2019

Will the words come,
  will the words go

Are they forever,
  how do I know

What do I think,
  what do I feel

Memory escapes,
  a spoke off the wheel

Written in blood,
  spoken in rhyme

Forever to echo,
  forever sublime

Daffodils scatter,
  a wolf howls at bay

Nighttime has answered
   —I kneel and I pray

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016)

I don't think you really like poetry.

Actually,
I don't think you'd like my poetry,

Because even though you wouldn't be able to tell,

My poetry is almost all about you.