Life is about                    Be selective in                     Don't ask why          
       moments,                        your                                  someone           don't                             battles              ­          keeps hurting you
wait for them,                          for                               ­       ask
     create them.                      sometimes                    why you keep
                                            peace is better                    letting them.
                                            than being right.
       You                                                              ­                     Have
always have                            The best                                     a
        a                                  way to get things                       dream        
     have a                                       done                     ­            of love
     choice.                                         is                                and look for                                                       simply     ­                              it
                                ­                       begin.                                   in
                                                             ­                             hidden places of
                                              You             ­                          the future.
        Be proud              have never been
          of who                       mine                            I didn't know that
         you are                  but I was                             love could be
         and not                     yours.                                 this way.
    ashamed of how                                               ...my sun all day,
somebody else sees                                                 my dreams at night,
             you.                                                             ­   my thoughts,
                                                       ­                                  words,
                       ...my lips and skin                               tears, hopes.
                       will still remember.                               ....my joy!
                          My hands will
           will still know all the contours and
               clearly feel the touch of you.
                                                            ­                             Jon York    2017

Stop Thinking So Much,
          You Are Breaking
           Your Own Heart.
                                       Jon York    2019


                                        



      3 word short story

             I'll Never
               Forget.
                                         Jon York    2019

I   firmly   believe
it's  the   reaching
for things we have
no business reaching
for, that makes the
human experience
so beautiful.

The  reach   for  the
sky   when   we've
no  means to touch
it.    Still  we  reach.

Sometimes life slaps
you in the face with
beauty,    screaming
at you to take notice.

Other times it whispers
in   your  ear  and  just
suggests that you stop,
look  up,  and  take    a
deep breath.
                                                                                        Jon York    2019

I want  to  be
your favorite
place   to  go
when  you've
had    a   bad
day or a good
     day.
                                                                                       Jon York   2019

It's  you
      and  me,
       and no
       matter
  what comes,
      there  is
   nothing we
       cannot
     overcome.
         I am
  here for you
     whenever
      you want
    or need me,
       always.

       And you
        should
      know this
      and only
             by
     weathering
    the greatest
     storms can
             we
  appreciate the
           most
      beautiful
          skies.
                                                                                     Jon York   2019

The  most  eloquent  silence  is
that of  two  mouths  meeting  
in  a  kiss  each  knowing  a
passionate kiss  should never
be  taken lightly,  when  done  
right.

No  one  will ever  kiss  you like
I've   kissed   you,  every  breath
escaping from  your  lips  I have
inhaled.
        
A  kiss   can  ignite a  fire  within
and sometimes  it  can  do  more  
than a touch, it  can  breathe  life
into a soul and  fan  embers long  
forgotten   or  as  yet  discovered  
and  sometimes the  best  kiss  is  
he  one  that  has been exchanged
a  thousand  times  by  the eyes
before it ever  reaches  the  lips.

Hugs  from behind,  neck  kisses,
long kisses, and cuddling are the
best things in the world.

Come...
   let it all go.
       melt away here.
              I've got you
                   for as long as you need.  
                                                         ­            Jon York   2019

Life is too short to
spend it at war with
        yourself.
                                                                                Jon York   2019

"When  you  do  not  seek or
need  approval  you  are  at  
your  most  powerful."
          ­         Caroline Myss

To   love  oneself   is  hard
work, but it becomes harder
when you realize that you're
actually  required  to  love
multiple versions of yourself
that show up without warning
throughout  the day, throughout
the week, throughout the month,
throughout your life.

Refine, deepen, and invigorate
your love for all of yourselves.

It  may  be  hard  work, but  it
will also  be  fun  and exhilarating.

                                                  ­                                        Jon York   2022

Some say
    I'm  too  sensitive.
       But  truth  is
          I  just  feel
            too much.
    Every word, every
           action and
     every energy, ever
              thought,
          goes straight
                    to
             the heart.
                                                                                           Jon York   2019

I
   crave
    you
    with
       a
  love so
    deep
  that the
   ocean
would be
   jealous,
     and
      as
    your
   curves
  run like
  waves,
      if
    love
   could
     save
     you,
    you
would
   live
forever.                                                                         Jon  York   2019

I LOVE YOU
              in  the  morning,
                       IN THE
                         afternoon,
               I LOVE YOU
                 in the evening,
               UNDERNEATH
                      the moon.

               IT WILL ALWAYS
                    be a mystery
              TO ME HOW
                       we can't forget
               THE LOVE THAT
                            forgot us.
                                                             ­                              Jon York   2019

Take  my  hand and
just feel. Sense my
intent and feel my
madness.  Look into
my eyes and see what
has always been inside.
A secret  place  that
belongs to  you.

Allow me to enter you, calmly
  and conquer your heart,
   steal your pain and
      fill you with joy,
let you feel my devotion
  and taste your love.
    Let me be your safe heaven
   for you to shelter on stormy days.
     And write you into poetry.
                                                         ­                                     Jon York   2019

It's not what you do,
it's how you do it.
It's not what you see,
it's how you look at it.
It's not how your life is,
it's how you live it.

Start where you are,
use what you have,
do  what  you  can,
    get  it  done.

You are the
artist of
your life.

Don't give the
paintbrush to
anyone else
and if there is
no  way,
create  one.

Some people want
material things,
           me,
I just want peace,
happy times and
people who love me.

Knowledge is learning                  have: new dreams
something everyday                                 new days
Wisdom is letting go of                            new desires
something everyday.                                new ways
                                                            ­         new years
                                                           ­          a new you
                                                                                             Jon York   2019

It's  a  hard time  to  be  human.
We know too much and too little.

Exaggerate  your flaws until  they
turn  into  virtues.

I wouldn't be surprised if poetry
-- poetry  in  the  broadest  sense,
in the sense  of a world filled with
metaphor, rhyme,  and recurring
patterns,  shapes, and designs -- is
how the world works,. The world
isn't  logical,  it's  a  song.

I  go  where  my  words  take  me.
I  write  for  my  own  amusement
but my ink comes from  the  heart
and sometimes a dark mind.

I wouldn't say I'm an inexperienced
poet, but  staying  in  the  lines  has
never been one of my strong points.
                                                                                              Jon York  2022

You  sway  left,
I flicker  right,
mirror images of
a divine eternal
flame.

Somehow,
each lengthening
night  mirrors the  
boldness of your
captivating spirit.

That  prison  of  
impossibility glittered
with flecks of crossed
stars.

Centered and still
we will become one,
finally bridging the
divide of the
confounding illusions
of space and time.
                                                           ­                                 Jon York    2021

The  key  to
        being happy
     is  knowing  you
            have the
      power to choose
       what to accept
            and what
              to let go.

               If you
         realized how
     powerful   your
  thoughts  are  you'd
          never think
      another negative
               thought
                 again.

           Be mindful
                of your
          self-talk. It's a
           conversation
              with the
              universe.
                                        ­                                                Jon York   2019

I don't want to
          be your entire world, no.
               I would be happy
                      just being
          your morning chocolate,
          your hanging car keys,
                   your wallet,
               your  cell  phone,
                    your ****.

            Something  seemingly
                   insignificant,
                       but if lost
                 throws  off  your
                     entire day.  

                      My thoughts
                 cannot move an inch
                            without
                          bu­mping
                            pieces
                            of  you.

                                 I
                        cannot stop
                            myself
                             from
                         constantly
                            falling
                           into you.
                                                            ­                               Jon York   2019

The most
              beautiful part
        to  loving  you  is  that
                I knew that
           when  you  let  me
              in  your space,
        it  was  never  because
             you needed me.

                      You
                  stopped
             needing  people
       a long time ago. It was
                because you
          wanted me, and that
                       is the
               purest love of all.
  
                           You
                    walk with the
                 fearlessness of a
                          wolf, the
                    bravery of a lion,
                            and the
                      fierceness of
                                a
                          dragon.

                              and
                           you  are
                             mine.
                                                                                        Jon York   2019

SMILES
           when sadness intrudes, and when you think of us together,
RAINBOWS
            to follow the clouds, and to surround us
LAUGHTER
            to kiss your lips and for as long as I kiss them,
SUNSETS
             to warm your heart, as we watch them together,
HUGS
             when spirits sag, or when you just need to be in my arms
BEAUTY
              for your eyes to see, and mine when I look at you,
FRIENDSHIP
              to brighten your being,
FAITH
           so that you can believe in us together forever,
COURAGE
           to know yourself and accept what will be,
PATIENCE
          to accept the truth and see and accept your reality,
LOVE
            to complete your life that it may always surround you,

I buried my ears into the calm of your heart, and in a matter of seconds: fell terribly in love with the way your loneliness fell softly and suddenly asleep in my chest.
I just hope it is freedom you feel when loving me and I hope it is home you find.
                                                           ­                              Jon York  2019

The sun is shining, the clouds are breaking
and I can be strong, yes I can and know that
you gotta do this for you and know that this
is for you and isn't about anybody else. so
live for you and never lose sight of that.

Be crazy enough to know you can do
everything in life and sometimes you have
to be your own hero.

Know that a good day is a good day. A bad
day is a good story and at the end of the day
it is all good and perhaps we should love
ourselves so fiercely that when others se us
they will know exactly how it should be done.

Believe in yourself and you will be unstoppable
and if you have to ask yourself , "will it be easy?"
NOPE, "worth it?" ABSOLUTELY, and you will
make mistakes but just don't let the mistakes
make you.

Stay positive, work hard, and make it happen
and work on yourself for yourself and learn
to trust the journey, even if you don't
understand it, just be happy and smile, it
drives everybody crazy.                                Jon York   2017

Love is an
      ancient story yet it is ever
         new and when love
                 is at its best,
          one loves so much that
             he cannot forget.

                   True love
     is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.
              He is not a lover
      who does not love forever.
                     Love is so
         divine  that  description
              would make it less.

                 Love  is  what
                      you feel
               but can't define,    
        it is what you know and
                 can  only  hope
                   to express
            to  her  for  the rest
                    of eternity.

                      Youth is
                  but  an  hour,
               beauty   a   flower,
                     but love
          is the jewel that wins
                    the world.
               Age  enriches true
                       love like
                    noble   wine.
                                                                                                 Jon York   2019

No matter how
many obstacles
life puts in my
way I will fight
my way through,
grit my teeth
and just keep
going.

Life is too short
to argue and
fight  so I will
just count my
blessings and
love the friends
and family that
are always
there for me
and make the
most of each
day and that
should be all
that I need to
say
                   Jon York   2017

I cannot read a word of Greek
and only English do I speak,
there is in all my pedigree
no trace of Mayflower ancestry.

I've seldom burned the midnight
oil nor have I tread on foreign
soil and my search for wealth
has been in vain and all too well
I know that I am plain.

I've led a sketchy life, 'tis true
and tho' unfit to tie your shoe
and I know my dreams are made
of sturdy stuff but I love you,
isn't that enough?

The time has come, the poem
is over, thought I'd something
more to say on this bright
beautiful day.        
                                    Jon York   2017

Lying  in a soft Kansas  meadow
with my dog and the  cows close
by under a diamond studded
sky  on  a  cold  winter  night
vibrating  with magic,  I read
your story written in the stars.

Marveling  at  the  full  moon
I  see your face looking at me,
your moonbeam eyes reading
my  innermost  being  like an
open book.

One  soul  we  are  in  many
different manifestations looking
down on earth with compassionate
moonbeam eyes.

But  I  like the  one where you
are sitting on a rock and a
hundred times you brush your
hair, a golden wave flowing to
your hips, as you long for my
gentle touch.
                                                          ­                                  Jon York   2025

I want to
be craved by
you  . I want
you to think
about kissing
me as much
as   I   think
about kissing
you.
                                                                                     Jon York   2019

You walked
        through the doors,
              your head
     tilted  down, perhaps
            scared to look
     at  my  face  for fear  of  
                  what you
        might  see  after  such
            a long 54 years of
                 being apart.

           A length of time
    that would bring anyone
                   to tears.

                 I looked at
          you trembling as you
              stood  before  me
                   and I said,
           "do you know why
   after all this time I am still here?"

            "Because when
         love  is  true,  it  waits."
                   "You are
            the  moon  of  my  life.
               guide me home."

                    And when
              we got there we
        slipped  into  an  intimacy
                       from
                   which we
                       never
                   recovered.
                                  ­                                                    Jon York  2019

I want  to  kiss you
in   all   the  places
your   pulse   beats
beneath  your skin.
I want my fingertips
to  trace  your  neck
as  I  slowly breathe
you in.
I  want   your  kisses
on  every inch of me
so  that   your   lips
leave me with stains.
I'll press   my  body
against   yours  and
feel  the  blood  rush
through  your  veins.
You found parts of me
I didn't know existed
and  in  you  I  found
a  love   I  no  longer
believed   was   real.
Love is a commitment
to  protecting  another
person's   heart  with
the same  passion you
use to  guard your own.                                                                          
                                                                                     Jon York   2019

Thought I'd something more
to say as another day passes
away and I think about all of
the loves that have come and
gone leaving tracks across my
heart and some leaving
memories some of which I
want no part.

Every year is getting shorter
and the seasons come and go
so much faster but I know it
isn't just me and that every
one ages and everybody turns
those pages and so many of
those memories fade away
and each day it seems like
I have less to say.

Sometimes it is the little things
that matter and those few kind
words that a few may speak
and those few precious moments
that we choose to keep forever
in our minds as we ride out those
final years of this grind that we
call life.

Every day that I wake up to
a new sunrise I am grateful to just
be alive and so happy that I was
able to survive so long as I have
but I still can't help but be a little
sad that I let the years slip by me
so fast and all I can do now is
live from day to day hoping
that I can find something more
to say.    
                                                          Jon York     2014

I'll be your earth,
          you can be my universe.

      I just
    want to
      melt
       into
        you,

       until
          we
       share
         one
          soul.

Your voice makes me smile
         your eyes
         are  my  favorite
                                       color.
The way you touch me
               sets my soul on fire,
and the best thing about
                  you......
                            you are mine.
                                                                                   Jon York   2019

Love is unselfish,
understanding and
kind,for it sees with
its heart and not with
its mind.

Love is the answer
that everyone seeks...
love is the language
that everyone speaks...

Love can't be bought
it is priceless and free
and love, like pure magic
is a sweet mystery!

My true-love hath my heart
I have hers,
my heart in me keeps her
and me in one,
my heart in her thought
and senses guide  
she loves my heart, for once
it was her own.

I cherish her heart because
in me it bides
my true-love hath my heart,
and I have hers,
making two fractional lives
a whole.
                           Jon York   2018

Let your process of being you
help others in their process of
being themselves.

Learn to  like living and know
that just to be alive  is a  grand
thing.

Love  to love, love  to  be loved
but  never  forget  your  own
insignificance.

Seek joy  in the saddest  places,
and  pursue  beauty to  its  lair.

Never simplify what is complicated
or  complicate  what  is  simple.
                                                                                                 Jon York   2022

No one
  is sent by accident
          to anyone
               and
      sometimes the
         two  people
           who are
   best for each other
        will have to
face greater obstacles
          in order to
    be with each other.

           There is no
      need  to  rush, if
         something is
   meant  to  be,  it will
            happen, in
    the right time with
              the right
    person for the best
               reason.

        When it's time
      for  two  souls  to
        meet, there's
    nothing  on  earth
 that   can  prevent  them
        from meeting,
    no   matter   where 
         each  may be
             located.
                                                        ­                                    Jon York   2019

Sometimes hard.
Fast and rough.

Sometimes deep.
Slow and gentle.
                                                                                         Jon York   2019

Can you move on from what
you are to what you need to
become and can you re-define
winning, embrace the
unexpected, help everyone go
further faster, accept change
and accelerate growth, and if
you can complete all or most
of the above, you have a good
start on the next chapter of
your life.

Tomorrow belongs to the fast,
and to those who can last, and
the winners and the losers will
be decided by how quickly we
can adapt to change as we get
old, and as we are watching
the world going by us  if we
are able to rediscover the
seemingly lost art of human
interaction, than we will have
good traction while writing
our new chapter.

While writing that next chapter
remember that there is no love
without forgiveness and no
forgiveness without love, so say
to yourself, I want to shine
before I die, and you just might.
                                                    Jon York    2017

She touched me
and it felt

        as if

the stars were
dancing across


              my skin.
                                                           ­                                    Jon York   2019

Some of
            my most favorite
     seconds  on  earth  are the
            seconds filled
   with my lips spilled upon
          your collarbone
    and your hair nestled into
                    my fist.
               You were the
           hardest lesson I've
                   ever had
              to learn and I'm
                     afraid
             I'll miss you
                   forever.
                                                                                     Jon York   2019

I used to dislike being
sensitive because I
thought it made me
weak, but take away
that single trait and
you take away the
very essence of who
I am.

You take away my
conscience, my ability
to empathize, my
intuition, my
creativity, my deep
appreciation for the
little things, my vivid
inner life, my deep
awareness of other's
pain and my passion
for it all.

You will never know
the value of a moment
until it becomes a
memory and realize
that any fool can
know, the point is to
understand.
                                                   Jon York   2018

Your  hands  can build  up
and tear  down  what  was
built  but  as these  hands
caress the contours of your
body,

desire  is  built  and  fear is
tore  down . It  is said  that
the  tongue  can  breed
division.   As  my  tongue
divides  you,  my  mind is
drawn  to  togetherness.

The taste of your acceptance
quenches a thirst only
known to solitary men.

Gentle   sighs   and  deep
moans  spark  a  hardened  
conviction  to  please you.  

Your physicality and sexuality
take me to heights beyond
measure, but as I drift back
to Earth and rest quietly in
your arms, it's the whispered
words of two souls speaking
that moves me.
                                                                                        Jon York   2019

Our eyes made love
to each other
beforehand...
You were something
that felt so new
yet so familiar to me,
like a place
I have never been
but somehow never left.
I think I have known
you my whole life,
and loved you awhile
longer.
I looked into those blue  
eyes  and there  I  stood.
Helpless,
watching you happen to
me...  never caring
if I came out alive as  I
became lost  in the most
intoxicating
aromatherapy.....ever,
your scent mixed with
my fragrance.
                                                      ­                      Jon York   2019

If
    you're
     going
        to
      stay,
      stay
    forever.
        If
      ­your
     going
        to
     leave,
      then
      do it
      today.
         If
       your
       going
    to change,
    change for
    the better.
      And if
      you're
      going
      to talk,
       make
    sure you                   Of all the things I needed to learn
   mean what                                          in this life you are my favorite.
      you say.                                                             ­          Jon York   2019

All  the  words and thoughts
behind my words come from
a  place of love as I  travel the
roads in the memory of this poet.

Walking the streets of this poets
memory I come to a meeting place.

Where the river mirrors the sky
in glassy completion, where the
earth gives way to water, where
two souls surrender to their smallness.

A fleeting moment in a temporary
existence, this moment is met, again
and again in places that transcend time.

We were together for such a short
time but in my mind she will be for
a lifetime.

I have to wonder why? It seems only
the blink of an eye and she was gone.
                                                           ­                                   Jon York  2024

When we touch,
                      it as if a
            whole  new  world
                  of galaxies
       opens up and the universe
           conspires, the stars
       approve and the moon stops
              hiding long enough
                 to peer at us
       from above, and for the first
        time,  finally,  something
             feels right and now
       when I look at you I see my
                   whole world
           and  my  favorite  place
                 isn't  four  walls,
                    my favorite
               place  is  the feeling
       I  get  when  I'm  with  you
               and I don't know
        where  I'm  going  to  be
             five years from now,
               but I pray that it's
       somewhere with a beautiful
                     view and
                  next  to  you.
                                                                           Jon York   2019

When  you

    love   someone,

    you don't give

     up.  EVER
                                                                                           Jon York   2019

I wondered what you were seeking
when you told me once I was always
the lingering tune draped among
your memories.

Maybe  your  love was tired  from all
of your  toys and  had  come to  rest
on  smoother  ground but  it seems  I
was  not  your soft  landing,  but  just
another  hook to hang your  hat, just
a past memory.

But I'm not too sure I was remembered
at all because of all the stories told
by you, as if you were talking about
you and I, were stories of which I had
no memory of at all, so it had to be
someone else and never really me,
as you claim it was.

I brace myself in place waiting for you
to remember how long you've wanted
me.

Every breeze carries to my mind the
truth and I am captive in your eyes
even as they wander.
                                                                                          Jon York  2020

Tell me your                                                       Our
               story                                                     worlds collided
     and start from the                                                and in
           beginning.                                                         an
      Start from where                                               instant
              you felt                                                     your ocean
      unloved and tell  me                                           had
           all the things                                            color because
              you're                                                           of my
        afraid to admit.                                                   sky.

  Tell me what you want                                     I have been
        most in the world.                               waiting for you just as
         I want to know                                      long as you have
                what                                               been waiting for me.
           makes you                                             I FOUND YOU.
              happy.                                               I WILL KEEP YOU.
                                                                       I WILL LIVE FOR YOU.
                    I                                                    a woman like you
          want to make                                             comes once
             you happy                                                    in a
                again.                                                   lifetime and
                                                                            we will teach
Let me love you.                                                each other                                
         Let your heart want me                              how to                
               Let's find out what happens                  love
                     when your're not afraid.                 again.

We have forgotten... True love, true friendship, is being able to crumble in each other's arms. We need each other's storms.
                                                                                             Jon York  2019

She told  me that my words  took  her breath and
would I please write something to again take her
breath.

Reaching for you, my letters now strung together
in loops and curves, I send them to you, spilled
from  this  heart  in everyday  ink.

It started in I think was around 1965.  0n a warm
summer day at the Country Club pool when we
were so young. Our eyes met and if love has a place
and way of being I was lost in the Heaven of your eyes.
Love but wanderlust of the soul found home from
the first errant kiss to last shared breath beneath
wondrous star strewn Heavens.

Yet Heaven pales to the beauty of your eyes. Kiss me,
love me again. Let me be once more within their light.

I believe in the power of words. If I can succeed
in making someone smile and think more positive
about themselves, I feel truly blessed. Writing poetry
is the catalyst in my quest for authenticity and the
conduit through which I express my deepest thoughts
and emotions.
                                                       ­                                    Jon York  2025

Writers   just  write   the  words.

Readers  decide what  the words
mean and how they are  affected
by those words  and if the poem
is about them or directed to them
personally.

Events  and  or  interactions  with
various people are the basis for my
writing.

I am just trying to leave something
behind.
                                                                                              Jon York   2022

If I had known how many weeks
      would come and go
'Ere I again should see you
      would I have acted so.

Would I have read the future
and known what was to be---
I wouldn't have hurt you darling
had all the world been given to me.

For I dream of you at night, dear----
and think of you all day---
I was cross when I was with you
because--- that was my way.

We always treat our dear ones
  the ones we love the best
just a trifle colder
than we ever treat the rest.

Sort o' lonesome, sort O blue
sort o' pinin  just for you
sort o' wishing for a way
I could be with you today
sort o' wondering if you know
just how much I'm missing you
thought I'd tell you just what is what
I'm missing you an awful lot.

The clouds were forming pictures
That only I could see
and in my album
was one of you and me
you had bent to kiss me
and you were about to say
that you would always, always
----- and then the wind blew
them away.

             Too Late
If I could go back o'er my days
and trace my steps through all the ways
I think the first thing I would do
would be to find my way to you
and seek to take from out your heart
the pain for which the greatest part
I was to blame.
                                                               Jon York 2017


'

Love is what I feel                 Let those                         Love is
but can't define,                          who                         an ancient
          for                                    always  ­                          story
    definition                   ­            loved                                 yet,
would make it                            now                                ­ it is
       less.                                       love                             ever new.
                                               the more.

Time is too slow for those                                            Love            ­    
who wait. too swift for those                                    spends                  ­  
who fear, too long for those                                          all            
who grieve, too short for those                                and still        
who rejoice, but for those                                           hath                
who love, time is not.                                                 store.       Jon York
                                                            ­                                                 2017
Love is like the measles               The                     Time makes
you can't have it bad                heart                          all but
but once, and the later         that loves                     true love
in life you have it the                 is                                 old.
tougher it goes with           always young.
you.                                                      ­                                  Love
                          ­                   Love is something                  looks not
I can bear to die--                              eternal-                 with the eyes
I cannot bear to                  the aspect may change          but with
    leave her.                          but not the essence.              the mind.

I might be having a bad day, but at least
I am having a day when for so many this
day is their last day in their journey of life
and life is like an ocean, it can be calm,
still, rough and rigid but in the end it is
all beautiful and the best thing you can
do is to believe in yourself.

Take it day by day and be grateful for
every breath that you take and realize
that you are not a product of your
circumstances but a product of your
decisions and recognize that along the
way of your journey that sometimes
you must fight a battle more than once
to win it.

Have the courage to embrace dreams
and the strength to sacrifice for them
and the determination to fulfill them
and don't wait around to do it because
life goes by us so much faster than you
think and in the end we are all just
human and that should be enough.

Learn quickly that you alone are
responsible for the quality of your life
and when you decide that your life is
your own that is when your life really
begins so decide what you want and
decide that there is no better time than
right now to get it no matter where
you are in the years of your life.

Nothing haunts us more than the
things we didn't say or the things that
we should have done but Hell is something
that you carry around with you, not
somewhere to go and sometimes we
survive by forgetting what we should
have said or done and find that courage
is that quiet voice at the end of the day
saying, "I will try again tomorrow".
                                                      ­                        Jon York     2018