leave behind your tired goodbyes,
the lullaby lies
you tell yourself at night.

let go of the ghosts
who clutter
your tarnished past,
echoing the memory
of a life once loved.

conquer the only real
fear
you have ever known;
the one that haunts
your dreamless days
as the world flies by.

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)

~ e. e. cummings