Short Gravedigger Poems

dust from every man
underneath his finger nails
  old gravedigger Death....

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Life is a bliss - an enticing play;
  each with an unquenchable heart to please
A crucial role to stage everyday;
  For even gravedigger elevates the soul to peace....

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Placid, watching him dig a hole. Hope he's digging it for me. I feel pitiless tward myself, for i 
know my solution is sublime inside my fragile calm mind. gravedigger, make sure its nice 
and deep, so I may cuddle up in a forever placid sleep. No marker needed, well maybe a do 
not disturb sign....

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whistling past a graveyard
Devil may care, but I have no regard

I walk among granite tombstones
six feet below are boxes full of bones

I find myself in a dark, dark room
only to realize it's a witch's tomb

gravedigger has bodies to retrieve
on this night, Saint Hollow's Eve...

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We pass through this world pretending we belong 
Failing to consider we won’t be here very long
 
Clinging to the illusion we’re in control  
Yet at the end of our dilution  wait’s a graveyard hole 

They’ll dig it wide and six feet deep 
The guy who dig’s it will lose no sleep 

We’re just one more stiff who pay's his bills. 
Fill's his car and buy’s his meals 

Darrell...

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With measured shovelsful of sod
The old man slowly labors,
Making sure as not to trod
On nearby sleeping neighbors.

One shovel deep and one pick wide,
Graves neatly set in rows.
Perfection so this soul who died
May rest in sweet repose.

The old man never slows his pace
His reaper soon made grim,
For he knows the one who takes his place
Soon digs his grave for him....

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The ground opens,
The taking begins.
Taking your flowers,
Taking your tears,
Taking my soul.
Into the hole goes two,
Grasping at roots.
Soul wearing wings,
Heartbeats replaced by shovel swings.

Only one escapes the hole.
And he indeed my freedom stole.

Oh to be a gravedigger.
Companions replaced by stones that shiver.
An audience of silent gargoyles who cry,
The only one worse off than him is I....

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