"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 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 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

i gotta say it -- i'm not one who reads poems much less understands them (don't remind me about that rejection letter from mensa). but when i heard this, chills ran through my body. as we malays call it, menyengat habis. and in that instance, i finally understood the power of poetry.

i love the people i love but today, now... i carry their hearts with me.