Breaking the Silence

As you may know Stephie has been at a silent meditation retreat for the past six days and has not been in cell phone or internet connection during this time. However, she did record some audio files and give me several gifts in a large cardboard box, and I have been opening one gift every day and listening to the pertinent audio files. Today is that last day of retreat (gasp!) and her gift today was a book of rumi love poems:

She also read the following poem to me:

i carry your heart with me

BY 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 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)

Stephie, I love you through and through and how thoughtful and generous you have been to make such thoughtful gifts each day! The greatest gift of them all is you and yourr loving presence, which I felt the entire week. I walk each day side by side with you and hold your hand throughout all of time. I love you darling and cannot wait to talk later at long last!

Love,

J of J&S