Love works if you work at it, but only
time itself will decide, so stand on your
head and get a different view of things
and see that something beautiful is
forever a joy.

My world has been full of love, laughter,
and full of tears, of well remembered
places and faces, of fleeting moments
of the hearts, unbridled joy of shared
silences, and lonely longings where the
deepest feelings are born, and live on
in memory.

I have known minutes of pleasure that
were worth millenniums of pain, but I
have always come away with more than
I gave, even when I was sure I' d given
a lot, but I do not try relentlessly  to
understand, knowing joy will come
when it is time and there is no good
or bad, malice or virtue, only time and
circumstance,

I have loved never asking if I should,
I have trusted not caring if I could or
couldn't and every time I closed the
door on reality, it came in through the
window, but what I do, I do with love
because there isn't any other way.
                                                  Jon York     2016