100 HP PH

You Being in Love

e.e. Cummings

you being in love

will tell who softly asks in love,

am I separated from your body smile brain hands merely
to become the jumping puppets of a dream? Oh I mean:
entirely having in my careful how
careful arms creatied this at length
inexcusable, this inexplicable pleasure-you go from several
persons: believe me that strangers arrive
when I have kissed you into a memory
slowly, oh seriously
-that since and if you disappear
solemnly
myselves
ask "life, the quesion how do I drink dream smile
and how do I prefer this face to another and
why do I weep eat sleeep -what does the whole intend"
they wonder, oh and they crey "to be, being, that I am alive
this absurd fraction in its lowest terms
with everything cancelled
but shadows
-what does it all come down to? love? Love
if you like and i like, for the reason that I
hate people and lean out of this window is love, love
and the reason that i laugh and breathe is oh love and the reason
that I do not fall into this street is love."