I carry your heart.

Today my love, my heart and my hero turns 50.

Gene Strother is one of the most intelligent and wise men on the earth. I would not have carried this cross with zeal had it not been for his resounding presence in my life. He whispered truth into my soul in the deepest valleys and sang louder than anyone else on every mountaintop.

I look to him for acceptance... I look to him for guidance... and I look to him for love. Yet, with every need I have, his character exceeds them all and provides so much more than I could of asked for or wanted.

He has become my knight, rescuer and teacher under the rule of Christ.

Dad, I love you. Happy 50th Birthday. Wherever you go, I go... and wherever I find myself in life, your heart beats in mine.

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 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 the 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.

-EE Cummings