A Bit of Poetry to Share

I heard this poem on a movie the other night, and it made me smile. It's sentimental and sweet, perhaps to the point of sappy, but we've already discussed the fact that I like sappy things. The poem is "i carry you in my heart" by E.E. Cummings. No, I did not forget to capitalize the "i." It bothers me, too. However, I searched google for quite some time in search of this poem, and none of the books which contain this poem capitalize the letter "i." Strange, I know. It's one of those poetry things. If I was writing for class, I'd come up with some reason Cummings may have chosen to use no capitalization in this poem and no punctuation other than the occasional semicolon and more parentheses than the average poem contains. I would probably also remark upon the unique spacing and placement of the words "i fear" and "grow." Luckily, though, I am not writing for English class, so I just read it for the sake of reading it and enjoying it. I hope you'll do the same.

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)