Empty My Heart, Of Thee

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Empty my Heart, of Thee-
Its single Artery-
Begin, and leave Thee out-
Simply Extinction's Date-

Much Billow hath the Sea-
One Baltic-They-
Subtract Thyself, in play,
And not enough of me
Is left-to put away-
“Myself” meanth Thee-

Erase the Root-no Tree-
Thee-then-no me-
The Heavens stripped-
Eternity's vast pocket, picked-