Victory

 

So many turn away from me

they whisper and they nod

My struggles seem too much for them

Where are you now my God?

I'm all alone inside this place

where fear and hope collide

I'm not so sure I'll make it out

my faith is surely tried...

My eyes are fixed upon the storm

yet deep inside my heart

I hear a voice that speaks to me

"Been with you from the start"...

"The lightening soon will disappear"

"the wind will cease to blow"

"The sun will rise within your life"

"and victory you will know"...

Jon Arno 2024

The One

 

I've known for months you were the one

my soul is now at peace

So many  nights of restlessness

your presence makes that cease...

A calming has embraced my heart

I'm now where I belong

Together we are one at last 

the bonds that hold us, strong...

The sun is rising in our lives

our chapters have begun

Excitement greets us every day

and life is so much fun...

Jon Arno 2024

 

Mirage

It's time that I move on from here
I'm weak and so alone
I knew this day would come for me
a fact, I've always known...

A desert, every day and night
was all just camouflage
I thought I saw you many times
but only a mirage...

Perhaps another paradigm
a place, where I can thrive
Someone to hold me in the night
where I can feel alive...

I'm waiting for the great escape
oh please, do not delay
Take me now before I cry
and beg that I might stay...

Jon Arno 2024

When I Get Like This

 

Been playing music that I love

it's soothing to my soul

Sometimes when I get moved like this

the pen looks for a scroll...

 

Thoughts and memories flood my mind

and faces stop to stare

But just as I begin to smile

they fly off in the air...

 

From where they come, I do not know

their visits touch my heart

Pulling sighs from off my lips

as they turn to depart...

 

Im free from most of yesterday

but one still shines within

Her shrine exists for me alone

to visit now and then...

 

The music ends and silence reigns

its time to go to bed

I might not hold you anymore

in dreams, we dance instead...

 

Jon Arno 2023

Sweet Fantasy

 

Awakened in a lover’s dream

a place that knows no time

Her voice keeps calling out my name

sweet fantasy of mine…

 

Searching for her everywhere

my passions start to flame

I’ve waited for this night so long

I know she feels the same…

 

Opening doors and looking in

at last, I find the one

She lays there with her arms stretched out

our time has now begun…

 

A gentle kiss upon her lips

soon turns to so much more

Her breasts are soft and beautiful

our passions start to soar…

 

Her thighs are tender to the touch

Her fingers brush my hair

Soon the pleasures take control

and love sounds fill the air…

 

Our bodies slowly now entwined

a rhythm we adore

Please don’t, stop I beg of you

her words, so sweet, implore…

Jon Arno 

Moments

 

I still have moments now and then

when memories drop on by

Your face appears within my mind

A tear forms in my eye…

 

Why do you still come near to me

for weeks I feel the pain

No matter how I deal with this

I know, you’ll come again…

 

I live in two realities

they’re never far apart

The one that time secured for me 

the other holds my heart…

Jon Arno 

                                                               

So Young

 

An old familiar memory

a flash, from days gone by

the embers flicker once again

refusing still to die...

They usually come and then they go

but this one, just won't leave

If there had only been more time

so young and so naive...

Jon Arno 2021

Dedicated to Ms. Vicki Pike