a little ee cummings for you

one of my closest friends lost her mom last week.  it is an experience i cannot even fathom and am devastated that my friend has to experience this pain.  i know that there is nothing monumental that we can do to take away the pain or make this challenging time a little less challenging, but i know that her family is in the thoughts of our whole friends-family over the next months, even years.

this is my favorite ee cummings poem and during the funeral yesterday i kept thinking it, so i thought i would share.  i can only imagine that her mom is thinking these thoughts about her family, even if she is no longer physically present.

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

the love and devotion felt in this poem provides such comfort and inspiration to me.  i hope this poem inspires and comforts you a little today as well :)