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.
