Carry It With You

During an afternoon walk while I was thinking of people I care about, so many miles away, my eyes were drawn to the way the light fell upon a seemingly ordinary shrub. There was something about the way the shadows formed within the shape of the leaves that reminded me of one of my favorite poems. So as I often do when something catches my attention, I snapped a picture.

The next day as I passed the same bush, I paused when I saw that it had been clipped and trimmed and no longer resembled the foliage that brought the words of ee cummings to my mind. When I returned home, I mentioned the scenario to Fiance' Phil and he said, "At least you took a picture of what it looked like when you did." I thought about what he said and how while that was true, the images that fill my albums and I save on my computer are beyond valuable to me but a picture could be lost or erased and gone forever.

What I realized then was that, it isn't the physical evidence in life that bonds but the memories and moments burned into the heart. The people that I love who bring goodness into my world are always close to me, no matter how many states divide us. The landscape might change and the images of our worlds might be different but there is nothing that can cut away love.

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 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