A glass globe containing dark rainclouds on one side and a bright yellow sun on the other.

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i am so glad and very

e.e. cummings

we are so both and oneful night cannot be so sky sky cannot be so sunful i am through you so i

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The poem celebrates union through playful invented words. Night and sky become comparisons for the lovers' extraordinary togetherness, while the final line says the speaker becomes more fully themselves through the other person. Love combines being two distinct people with a powerful sense of being one.

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