I Carry Your Heart With Me.

My best friend celebrated a birthday this month. She celebrated it without me. Somehow, in all the chaos of family vacation I lost track of time and let the day go by without even a phone call. How could I forget about someone that I rely on so much on her special day?

She knows me so well. She understands the way I think, how I react, and what I need. She always tells me what I need to hear, even when I may not want to hear it. She supports me during the difficult times, and rejoices with me during the good. Words cannot say what she means to me. I know, that she knows...not time, nor distance, nor lack of contact can keep her from my thoughts. She is always with me. I carry her heart in my heart.

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)

Happy Birthday Lisa! You are a treasure in my life. I love you.