Digging Deeper

To shovel and spade through

The gravel and dirt

Of what forms the Earth

What will we discover?

A sinew of cables

Endless in nature

Infestation of networks

Replacing us souls?

Or

The bustling tunnels

Parasitic in nature

Hollowing earth out

Like lumbering louts

To keep foraging through

Would we uncover

The surface

A revelation

Thereby exposing,

The Earth's heavy heart

It's past plights

To the unfeeling light?

We might unearth

The roots and bones

Of a thousand years

Tracing the lines right down

To the end, but

What for?

And if we ever venture depth

Is it but a desperate redress

Or, a shielded repress?

For our minds are veined and stretched

But never,

Never to reach the Core

What reason would one need

To be tired of Surface;

And the choking lack of air

When venturing higher.

Thus methodically moving

In opposite currents

To discover soil

And the richness of it

To dig deeper

Need we have torch lights?

The scorching Core

And the jewels embedded

Which will shine us through?

To dig deeper...

What then,

Will one

Recover?