Thanks for the Memories

Today I was searching for a poem. Didn't find it, but came across this. Not what I was looking for at all. But I like it, and it fits. My interpretation might be wrong (the title throws me off), but it brings to mind certain people whom I have known and will probably never know in the same way ever again. Time has shown me it's usually for the best, but still it's easy to miss the connection.

"Animals" by Frank O'Hara

Have you forgotten what we were like then

when we were still first rate

and the day came fat with an apple in its mouth

it's no use worrying about Time

but we did have a few tricks up our sleeves

and turned some sharp corners

the whole pasture looked like our meal

we didn't need speedometers

we could manage cocktails out of ice and water

I wouldn't want to be faster or greener than now

if you were with me O you

were the best of all my days

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Oh, and update: found the original poem I hunted for. Thanks, Emily C. for introducing me to it back in college. (Although, side note, as much as I like e.e. and appreciate his unconventional forms, the punctuation decisions sometimes bother me.)

"i carry your heart with me" by e.e. cummings

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)