March 23, 2008

A Real Love Song

I Carry Your Heart With Me
By E.E. Cummings

I carry your heart with me
I carry it in my heart
I am never without it, anywhere I go, you go, my dear;
And whatever is done by only me is your doing, my darling
I fear no fate, for you are my fate, my sweet
I want no world, for beautiful, you are my world, my true
And you are whatever a moon has always meant
And whatever a sun will always sing, is you

Here is the deepest secret nobody knows
Here is the root of the root, and the bud of the bud
And the sky of the sky of a tree called life
Which grows higher than the soul can hope, or mind can hide
And this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

I carry your heart
I carry it in my heart

3 comments:

  1. e. e. cummings insisted on having his name written in lower case - even went to the extent of legally changing it. quite like k d lang. more when pointless trivia continues.

    in other news, can you imagine the rough high school years that mr. 'cummings' must have faced?

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  2. That's a myth by the way. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_e_cummings#Name_and_capitalization

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  3. stand corrected.

    bah! humbug.

    Signed, ViShAl ObErOI
    (a blend of intense humility and immense pride)

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