I Carry You With Me

i do carry you with me
even after the fire
i kept your ashes within me
as i miss you so dearly
i will always carry you with me
next to my mind's heart
i will never forget you
in trinkets and precious memory
you will always be part of me
wherever you are
however you cope
i hope you're never alone
with or without me

through the dark or the light
i will carry you with me

my love

Author's Note

An extremely all around lovely women and the following EE Cummings poem is responsible for this particular pile of words.... basically, I'm unoriginal today.

Reviews

[LKBillips]

in trinkets and precious memory

great line. Good read.

[Nicole_the_poet]

Love this poem great poem😊

[Davidgeo]

Thank you kindly.

[Nicole_the_poet]

Your welcome

[Anmarie]

Love this poem!!! Great job. I have the feels :(

[Davidgeo]

Ha... the feels... I like how you put that.

[Anmarie]

lol thanks.

[KWP]

particularly emotive ... nice one ... I didn't get that thing about Greta Garbo ... I must have been playing in the cane fields :D X

[Davidgeo]

Don't worry, it's not that clever anyway. Every person, in every piece of media attached to this poem was cremated. EE Cummings, Heath Ledger, Greta Garbo, and Isreal Kamakawiwoʻole were all cremated after they died. The end of that "somewhere over the rainbow" video is the actual spreading of Kamakawiwoʻole's ashes in the Pacific Ocean off Makua Beach in Hawaii. There's a couple other things to this as well but I'd like to keep them to myself.

[KWP]

I think it was those couple of other things that drew me in ... not that I need to know what they are ... this one seems to dive a bit deeper than surface level X

[Ana B.]

I love how this intersects between a ''burnt'' love and Greta Garbo being cremated. She was a lovely spark in the Golden Age era of Hollywood.

[Davidgeo]

I didn't think anyone would put that together. Not because it's hard to see or anything like that but because most people don't even know who Greta Garbo was these days. It makes me happy to know I'm not the only one.

[Ana B.]

Anyhow, judging by the comments around here, its never a dull moment :). A pleasure to stop by, dear author. Besides, im a fan of old school classics myself. Especially music.

[Davidgeo]

Unfortunately, I'm a little better at making enemies than friends. I don't really mind too much though, I accepted not being a people person years ago. My friends constantly say I should've stayed in the military... I tend to agree most days. Thanks for stopping by, it's always a pleasure.

[Ana B.]

You know, i used to think that my friends are among the most important things in my life. Then i came in usa for 2 years, and i realized that i've always been by myself. Now, when i'm going back in a couple of months i don't know what i will find...probably a bunch of strangers. I suppose true friendship is as rare as true love. Anyways, my point was that, at least, people know where they stand when talking to you.

[Davidgeo]

You seem pleasant enough, you'll probably have friends still instead of strangers when you go home. Not everyone knows where they stand with me... some people are just too f*****g stupid to take even the most obvious of hints.

[Ana B.]

hahaha, fair enough, you can fix many things but you can't fix stupid.

[Davidgeo]

Unfortunately this is true.

[Purpleflower]

Hey David........was curious of how you wrote.......I'm confused of how a soul that passes hate unto another that he knows nothing about......yet inks such beautiful words that are heart touching.......amazing really......enjoyed this......purple luv & hugs xo :)

[Davidgeo]

I might know a little more than you'd think about certain "people" that frequent this site. I appreciate your comment but do us both a favor, refrain from interacting with me again in the future and I will do the same for you. Enjoy your scum bag friends -- serial plagiarist, prolific fake profile creator, and PM bully wordman along with closet racist tracey... that's a great pair of "humans" right there. Bye bye forever now.

[kitty]

Beautiful! Lovely sentiments.

[Davidgeo]

Thanks for taking the time kitty.