earth worms

 

burrowing –
inexorable with the dark,
no cause to rise
but sense the light
and fear its meaning

 

this face beneath creation,
the dirt of life that holds a worm
from heavens baking skies
and food for deaths sharp eye 

lest now I fail to irrigate hope
for fates amorphous cycle

_____________________________‘

‘Opiates of Reason’ Series