I Carry ~

Another inspirational poem I came across recently. One morning while I was still in my job hunting days with not much to do I decided to watch In Her Shoes. I am not a big fan of Cameron Diaz (and I actually would not choose to watch any of her movies, especially after movies like 'There is something about Mary', but this one I decided to watch because of the underlying 'sisterly' theme...As it turned out, it was another movie of Cameron's that I would not recommend (and I thought it was more of a pity-party movie aimed at wooing the viewer into feeling sorry for the character of Cameron (to whom I felt no sympathy). However, and after an hour and some of sitting through the movie something good came out of it. The poem below....

"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 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)"

~ EE Cummings