Carrying the World in Our Hearts

photo by Chris Lowther, Tofino

The following was inspired by "I carry your heart with me - I carry it in my heart" by e.e.cummings, one of my fave poems, posted at My Heart's Love Songs yesterday by Dani.

Let us carry the world

in our hearts:

let us care for

the cleanliness of the air,

what we put into its 

shining and life-giving waters.

Let us tend to the earth

like a lover,

nurturing, watering, caring

for each growing, alive and

miraculously living thing.

Let us look up to the sun

-and the rain, and the wind and the sky-

with gratitude.

Let us bless the wind

for blowing,

and the mountains 

for being still.

Let us carry the world

in our hearts,

so that we never add

another hurtful thing to its distress.

Let us soothe its wounds,

and heal it, by planting 

new seeds and trees

in every empty spot.