Isabelle Cooper - Heart Beats

Are we pent
Visionless through
The heart beats;

Slow now, so slow
And yet you say
the dream must go

What sleeps in the veins
And robs the eyes of
Sight -
That into the dark cave
I must go
And never know the
Light?

Isabelle Cooper

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