One life on this earth is all we get whether it is enough
or not enough but all  I want kisses is from you without
question marks and if at some point one lingers I want the passion we share to make the question marks stand at attention, straighten their backs and transform themselves back into exclamation marks locking themselves to our lips.

The obvious conclusion would seem to be that at the very least we are fools if we do not live it as fully and bravely and beautifully as we can and try to embrace what is so evident.

Sometimes in life you must look through the barriers to see the beauty and you must look beyond the walls to the heart waiting
on the other side, and forget all the reasons and all the voices telling you to stop.

Look through the pain, the heartache or the waiting and see, and for the first time see all that lies beyond and just embrace it.

When the cold wind blows, I will close my eyes, calmly  knowing
I am anchored to you and because of you I feel myself slowly but surely becoming the me I have always dreamed of being and I embrace it.

I hope with quiet sincerity that the final words that ever leave these lips of mine will always be, "I love you."

                                                          ­                               Jon York   2018