A Poem by e.e. cummings

The poem below by e.e. cummings is my favorite love poem. I was thinking about my 42 years with Martha the other day.  When she got her Ph.D. a couple of years ago, she manifested not only her vision for her life, but also my vision for her. Martha has always has been at my side when I have fulfilled my dreams.  Maybe that’s what e.e. cummings means when he says “you are my fate, my sweet.”  This poem reminds me that love, like life, is a mystery. Yet, love is real. Love connects me to Martha heart to heart. My father-in-law, Jeff Freymann, has for years said that love is infinitely divisible. Love seems to be what holds all things in the universe in relationship, like the moon, the sun and the stars, including your heart and mine.

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 it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant

and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is 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 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)

 

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