Poem Response 18

I Carry Your Heart with Me -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 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)

Found at: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/179622

This poem as a whole is so beautiful… and the words without the parentheses are phenomenal as well…

“I carry your heart with me.

I am never without it.

I fear

no fate

I want no world

And you are whatever a moon has always meant

And whatever a sun will always sing is you

Here is the deepest secret nobody knows

And this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart

I carry your heart “

There is a part of me that feels like this is what love is really supposed to be. The Bible talks about two individuals becoming one in marriage, and I think that idea of “oneness” is so much more than simply saying “I do”.  It really is becoming… one…

I think this poem is talking about an aspect of that. Having one person so close to your mind that they live within your consciousness. Everything takes on a different light because of them. You carry them within yourself, and they become the reason the world looks the way it does. The whole world is different, because you are different. You aren’t simply “you” anymore, you have someone else adding to every single moment of your life, whether they are with you physically, or simply within your mind. They’re there. Always. And you’re never really alone, or never really acting from yourself, parts of you have been overtaken by this other person. They influence you in ways you never thought possible, and somehow you become a different, better version of yourself, because you aren’t alone. You have your other half.

And that is just cool.