IN MEMORY OF MY DEAR WIFE, RENATE (+ 9/23/03),

WHO NOW SEES "FACE TO FACE", FULLY UNDERSTANDING;

WHILE WE SEE ONLY "THROUGH A GLASS, DARKLY."

PRESERVE HER LIFE, O LORD, FOR SHE WAS HOLY.

 

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in

my heart)i am never without it(anywhere

i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done

by only me is your doing,my darling)

i fear

no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want

no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)

and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant

and whatever a sun will always sing is you.

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 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

 

Know this, my darling.

I love you

From the primeval ooze

To the last shudder

of a dying universe.

 

But know this most of all,

That I love you

Now,

As Now stretches out its arms

To the Future

To clasp it to its bosom

Eternally,

As I would you.

 

And, as we mingle

With the dust of eons,

I shall love you

With an everlasting love.

 

L.P. Ulrich, 1977