i carry your heart with me

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 only by 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 moon has always meant and
whatever 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 the mind can hide) and
this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)

-e.e. cummings

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