Digging Through Darkness

To think

your way into the rabbit hole

digging

deeper and deeper with no foreboding

of what lies on the surface

and you know you have abandoned

the realities that exist above

in order to burrow through darkness,

solitude,

lifeless and directionless at times

and you continue to dig

your arms get stronger

as the earth collects under your fingernails

it cakes onto your knees

and you imagine that if you happen to

come across someone else

while you are in this place

they will look at you in distaste and turn away

the solitude of this journey soon weighs on your shoulders

and your digging becomes much slower and tasking

the strength of your body no longer can pull

the weight of your dragging spirit

and soon you stop  

and take a long rest.