Bite marks,
because sometimes
it's important
to mark your
territory.
                                                 ­                                           Jon York    2019

Life is too short to
  be anything but
          happy.
So kiss slowly,
   love deeply,
forgive quickly
take chances  and
never have regrets.
                                                                                                 Jon York   2019

It's not what
I feel for you;
it's what I don't
feel for anyone
             but you.
                                                                                               Jon York   2019

Falling   in   love   is
easy.  Having  *** is
easier. But  bumping
into   someone   that
can spark your soul -
that ****  is  rare.
                                                                                           Jon York   2019

Only a
few  people
    care.
The rest are
just curious.
                                                                                   Jon York   2019

It's  exciting
when   you  find
parts of yourself
         in someone              
                else.
                                                                                             Jon York    2019

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

To have someone
understand your mind is
            a different kind of
                            intimacy.
                                                                                           Jon York   2019

When
someone asks
   you to listen
         to a song,
it's because
the lyrics mean
   everything
they're   trying
               to say
                  to    
                you.
                                                                                               Jon York    2019

It feels
   amazing to
  be touched by
the person who
   understands
   your mind.
The person who
  acknowledges
your  flaws and
         loves your
                 soul.
                                                                                           Jon York   2019

Knowing a person
is like music,

What attracts us
to them is their melody,

And as we get to know
who they are,
we learn their lyrics.
                                                                                           Jon York   2019

I shut
     my
    eyes
  in order
      to
     see.
                                                                                       Jon York    2019

I always write poetry
        and, read it.
     You know how
    sharks  have  to
     keep swimming
   or  they  die?   I'm
   like that.  If  I  stop
   writing poetry and
      reading, I think
              I'd die.
                                                                               Jon York  2019

Maybe words are leaves
     and  grow  from
the  trees  inside  me.
If I stand beneath them
   and shake them
free,
you might praise me
for the piles  I  pick up
     and collect,
but   you,   my  love,
    planted  them
    inside  me.
You  watered  them
    with your tears
  and sang to them
with  your  laughter.
I may shake the words,
           but you
     are the sunlight
       that lets them
             grow.
                                                                                             Jon York   2019

Long enough
is never enough,
  with you.
                                                                                  Jon York   2019

When I found her
I learned that she
was not something
wild to tame but
something wild to
                run with.
                                                                                            Jon York   2019

How we
all want so
badly to
divorce ourselves
from reality,
but that
***** just
won't sign the
papers.
                                                                              Jon York  2019

Your spirit
  is  a bed
in which my
  loneliness
  can softly
      rest.
                                              ­                                        Jon York   2010

There is nothing
in this world more
irresistible
than a person
who inspires
by simply wearing
their soul
on their sleeve.
                                                                                                Jon York   2019

Sometimes
the universe is
much too
beautiful for
its own good.
Sometimes:
you are
my universe.
                                                                                               Jon York   2019

I   still   remember
many, many things
about her but the
main thing I will
always remember is
the way she looked
at  me , her eyes
glowing like a thousand
sunsets, saying to me,
"if there is one thing
we can always be, it
is better."
                                                                                              Jon York   2019

Our connection is seamless,
your desire to feel beautiful
is   bigger  than  the   sun,
and my desire to love you,
swallowed your desire like
the horizon.
                                                        ­                                       Jon York   2019

You know what
truly aches in me?
Having so much
inside my head
and not having the
   slightest clue
on how to pour
         it out.
                                                                                               Jon York   2019

And in the end,
we are all just
humans,
drunk on the idea
that love,
can heal
our brokeness.

What
comes
easy,
won't
last,
What
lasts
won't
come easy.
                                                                                              Jon York   2019

I loved
the way
you touched
me.

What more can
I say?

Your hands are
made from the things
we all have trouble
believing.
                                                                                             Jon York   2019

There are
      pieces
   in me that
       die
when she leaves
       these
    blankets.
                                                                                Jon York   2019

If ever
you run away,
let it be
with me,
                                                                                          Jon York   2019

It's in the eyes,
always in the eyes.
                                                                          Jon York   2019

It's you,
because no one else
makes sense.

I have blisters
on my
feet
from dancing
with your
soul.
                                                                                            Jon York   2019

Love is free,
so fall,
fall freely,
fall freely into me.
                                                                                            Jon York   2019

You cannot
convince people to
love you. This is an
absolute.   No   one
will ever give you
love  because  you
want   him  or  her
to  give   it.     Real
love   moves  freely
in  both  directions.  
Don't  waste   your
time   on  anything
else.
                                                                        Jon York   2019

To love or to
        have
        loved,
          that
     is enough.
          Ask
      nothing
       further.
         There
       is no fear
         to be
    found in the
         dark
    folds of life.

       Sometimes
               I
        just wish
             that
       I could fast
      forward time,
             just to
         see if it's all
              worth
                   it
            n the end.
                                                            ­                           Jon York   2019

You were you,
           and I was I,
           we were two,
           before our time.

I was yours,
            before I knew,
            and you have always
                       been mine too.

True beauty
      lies deep.
                                                           ­                             Jon York   2019

Most obstacles melt
     away when
  we make up our
           minds
         to walk
           boldly
          through
            them.

          Obsessed
               is a
     word the lazy
             use to
          describe
              the
          dedicated.

          You only
                live
     once, you might
              just as
                well
                  be
            a badass.

               Strive for                   
                progress                     Sometimes you need to
                      not                                 talk to a three year old
               perfection.                                 so you can understand life
                                                            ­                            again.

                             ­                                                               Jo­n York   2019

The most
wonderful thing
  I decided
      to do
was to share
      my
life and heart
      with
      you.

   I don't know
how you did it,
   but you just
walked right into
       my soul
     as if it was
  something you
had done many
    times before.
                                                                                                 Jon York   2019

If you
  genuinely
      love
  someone,
  don't ever
    decorate
   their eyes
   with tears,
    their ears
    with lies,
     and their
       heart
      with a
     wound.
                                                                                                Jon York   2019

I have thought
my entire life I needed
oceans or mountains
  or bright city lights
         to be happy.
           Truth is:
  I do not care where
              I am
          as long as I
          have you.

                   I
           want to be
                 that
           person you
    can't stop thinking
                about
         when you're
        surrounded by
           people who
             aren't me.
                                                                                            Jon York   2019

You are
         my
        sun,
    my moon
         and
        all of
     my stars.

       You are
           my
          heart,
         my life,
            my
       one and
           only
        thought.

         You are
            the
          poem
     I never knew
          how to
   write and this
       life is the
     story I have
          always
      wanted to
             tell.    
                                                                ­                              Jon York   2019

My only hope is that
       even for a moment
  I helped you see the world
       a little bit different.
                                                                                           Jon York    2019

You get
       in life,
what you have
   the courage
     to ask for.
                                                                                                Jon York   2019

"I love you,"
that means I'm not just
   here for the pretty
             parts.

           I'm here
      no matter what
                and
         good things
       happen, when
         love is real.
            we will
            be okay.
         Let's root for
        each other and
          watch each-
          other grow.
       When you can't
       find the sunshine,
        be the sunshine.
                                                       ­                                     Jon York   2019

I was made
     by the wind,
  wicked and free,
to carve out my own
     crazy destiny,
    to find a place
     in this world
    where I can be
the most authentic
     version of me.
                                                                                               Jon York   2019

Once upon a
  remember,
there was a
home on my
   lips, where
    your kiss
       lived.
   and I know
       you're
coming home
        again
         soon.
                                                                                       Jon York   2019

I love you with
everything I am,
everything I've been,
and everything
I hope to be.
I love you
with my past,
and I love you
for our future,
and for the years
I know
we'll have together.
I love you for every
one of my smiles
and even more,
for every one
of yours.
I love you for every
moan and for all
the precious
sounds you make
when
we touch and touch
and touch,
and we kiss and kiss
and kiss,
and for the
pleasure you
bring the both to
of us.
                                                                                          Jon York   2019

I love our
story, sure it's
messy, but it's
the story that
got us here.
                                                                                              Jon York   2019

And then my
  soul saw you
  and it kind of
went "Oh, there
  you are, I've
   been looking
       for you."
                                                                                              Jon York   2019

We   kiss,
  We   hug,
  We   text,
  We   talk,
  We   forgive,
  We   laugh,
  We   smile,
  We   touch,
  We   touch again,
  We touch more,
  We kiss again,
  We kiss some more,
  We   love,
   That's us
                                                                                          Jon York   2019

the most painful tears are not
the ones that fall from our eyes
and cover  your  face.
It's   the  ones that  fall  from
your heart and cover your soul.
                                                                                           Jon York   2019

She doesn't say
"I love you"
      like a
     normal
     person.
     Instead,
  she'll laugh,
shake her head,
      give you
    a little smile,
       and say,
"you're an idiot"
       if she tells
            you
   you're an idiot,
          you're
               a
       lucky man.
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            Take a
             lover
              who
             looks
             at you
                like
             maybe
             you are
              magic.
                                                                                       Jon York   2019