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

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Inside A Heart

-written by Joanne G. Yoshida

When I approached yours,

I was surprised how it

Opened up to let me enter.

I walked slowly and softly,

Marveling at its vastness. 

It was then I knew

That I was the first person who’d explored

These walls

Once inside,

enveloped by its fresh warmth

I stopped

And listened

For what else does one do

Inside a heart.

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Admit something:

Everyone you see, you say to them, "Love me."

Of course you do not do this out loud,

otherwise someone would call the cops.

Still, though, think about this,

this great pull in us to connect.

Why not become the one who lives

with a full moon in each eye

that is always saying,

with that sweet moon language,

what every other eye in this world

is dying to hear?

- Hafiz

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Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength;

loving someone deeply gives you courage.

-Lao Tzu

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One regret dear world,

that I am determined not to have

when I am lying on my deathbed

is that I did not kiss you enough.

-Hafiz