You can't skip chapters
you have to read every
line, meet every character
or you won't enjoy all
of it.

Hell,
some characters will
make you cry for weeks.
You will read things you
don't want to read, and
you will have moments
when you don't want to
the pages to end.

Stories like ours keep the
world revolving and we  
learn that the best things  
truly come when you have
the patience to endure.
                                                         ­          for  introduction
I am lost                                                    and I fell in love
in your pages                                           with the strength
and fumbling through                            of   your   spine.
the chapters of you.                                 I will turn them,
You                                                        ­     now, still,
came without                                            but promise me
prologue                                                    yo­u will never
and no need                                              end.
          ­                                                                 ­                   Jon York  2019