The Deep Below

I bury myself in the sand,

Crawl deeper down into the land;

My heartstrings unfurled,

I hide from the world

In the one way I know that I can.

 

And deeper and deeper below,

No friends or well wishes in tow,

I find a warm hearth

Far down in the Earth,

And curl up in my new home.

 

Locked away, now I finally sleep

Left alone with my thoughts and my dreams;

And time slows to meet

A silent defeat;

The world above ceases to be.

 

But changed from the pressure and heat,

My cocoon becomes mirrored; I see

And the ugliest sight,

Hidden here from the light?

The decay taken root within me.