Some people and some things
that take place
in your life you cannot ever forget
so all that you can do is
just move on.

I am just happy to be alive
and to have made it this far down
that treacherous road of life
as we ask ourselves day in and day out
what this life is really
all about.

Love is something that
we all try to embrace and sometimes
it just hits us in the face
causing us to be sad or to be glad
as we ask ourselves
what is this love really
all about.

You hope that the scars
that are left will soon be gone
and will not influence
what you have to do for
the rest of your life.

We go through life
and remember people and events
and places that we wish had never been to
or seen so we bury them
and try not to think about them again
but at what cost
as we wish that we could
come out of it clean
as we pretend that they
never really happened.

Living a good life
after fighting a war
in a far away land and another at home
in the promise land
caused many of us to just
stick our heads in
the sand.

Tasting a love
that you thought was real
but turned out to be only lies
that brought many cries
and forever changed how you look
at trust only makes moving
on a must.

There is just no escape from reality
so we lie to oueselves
and pretend that they never happened
but some things and some people
you just don't ever forget
so you just move on.        Jon York                 2012