I Carry Your Heart

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 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)

- E.E. Cummings


Since I've had Miss Madelyn, this poem has been resounding in my head. It's always been one of my favorites, but to me, I feel as if it now has a deeper meaning to me. As any parent knows, the love of a child is just so pure and unconditional. She melts my heart, and I know that as long as I'm alive, I'll carry her heart with mine.