Happy Birthday

for michael

you came to my life fifteen years ago, a bright blue butterfly landing on my windowsill, quite surprisingly, I was shocked and happy.

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