Deeper Darker Downward

It’s a heavy world we're stuck to Pushing us down in the crust Until our bodies, bent from the weight, are disposed of in the dust Day by day, our shoulders slump Lower the longer we live Maroon bags pull down our faces Short falls shatter our hips Spines crush from the pressure Of the boulders on our backs The skin below us ripples And we tumble through its cracks Deeper darker downward go To the place we all are drawn Where the sun stops its rise and set And there is no dusk nor dawn The blackest of the depths calls We cannot resist the urge Into the hollow hole, we dive Drowning, we submerge Descending in this heavy world We burrow in the crust Exceeding the abyss before us Mistakenly thinking we must. Jessica Highstreet 10/14/15