Somewhere I Have Never Traveled

This is my way of saying thank you to someone who has shared some kind words and inspiration with me over the past few weeks. He is a complete stranger who has shared in my misery. He sent this to me last night and I thought it was beautiful and inspiring and wanted to share it with all:

Somewhere I Have Never Traveled
E. E. Cummings

somewhere I have never traveled, gladly beyond

any experience, your eyes have their silence:

in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,

or which I cannot touch because they are too near

your slightest look easily will unclose me

though I have closed myself as fingers,

you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens

(touching skillfully, mysteriously) her first rose

or if your wish be to close me, I and

my life will shut very beautifully,suddenly,

as when the heart of this flower imagines

the snow carefully everywhere descending;

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals

the power of your intense fragility: whose texture

compels me with this colour of its countries,

rendering death and forever with each breathing

(i do not know what it is about you that closes

and opens; only something in me understands

the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)

nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands

Thanks again, Dave!