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backwards step

backwards step
into the garden
of should be sleep

alone
and defenceless
from a distance I view my beloved

vibrating in emptied landscape
my heart beats its own will
I do not own it

but for these few moments in which I own eternity I love no one

churning
distantly inside me
I am pursued by heaven

its flows as kilometres

of ink in my veins

my arteries blue