[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in] by cummings

[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]

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 it’s 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 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)

 

This is the purest expression of love to me.  The last line is what I want inscribed on my wedding band if ever 

I find someone to marry.  As always, Cummings has taken something complex and impossible to describe and

has found a way to clothe it in images that are flawless.  Just reading this makes me feel hopeful about love, no mean task, especially just now in the midst of my winter sadness.  This, this is what I want.  This is what I'm looking for, the wonder that's keeping the stars apart.  I hope I can keep the strength up to continue believing it's possible.