dive for dreams

e.e. cummings

dive for dreams
 
or a slogan may topple you
 
trees are their roots
 
and wind is wind
  
trust your heart
 
if the seas catch fire
 
and live by love
 
though the stars walk backward
  
honour the past
 
but welcome the future
 
and dance your death
 
away at the wedding
  
never mind a world
 
with its villains or heroes
 
for good likes girls
 
and tomorrow and the earth
  
in spite of everything
 
which breathes and moves, since Doom
 
with white longest hands
 
neating each crease
 
will smooth entirely our minds
  
before leaving my room
 
i turn, and stooping
 
through the morning kiss
 
this pillow, dear
 
where our heads lived and were.
  

 silently if, out of not knowable  

 
silently if, out of not knowable
  
night's utmost nothing,wanders a little guess
  
only which is this world)more my life does
 
not leap than with the mystery your smile
 
sings or if spiraling as luminous
  
they climb oblivion voices who are dreams,
  
less into heaven certainly earth swims
  
than each my deeper death becomes your kiss
 
losing through you what seemed myself, i find
  
selves unimaginably mine; beyond
  
sorrow's own joys and hoping's very fears
  
yours is the light by which my spirit's born:
  
yours is the darkness of my soul's return
  
you are my sun,my moon,and all my stars