I came away clean

You went searching
Dug deep
Your shovel forming mounds
As you sunk lower


Perhaps you found what you sought
Metal clanking on ancient artifact
But you're a poor engineer
Didn't shore up the four walls you'd made


It started as a trickle
One particle at a time
Cascading to your blackened boots


And you didn't see
Thought it had become easier
The digging becoming looser
Scooping what you'd already thrown
Piling slide on avalanche


It'll be in your mouth soon
Choking it down
Filling you with someone else's filth
It's what you wanted
To bury yourself


You struck out alone
Told nobody where you were going
This place is remote
Screaming won't help you
And neither will I


It's me you dug for
Me you found
Broke me from hard earned rest
Cupped your hands and lifted me by a heel
Out of this hole


I'm walking away now
Your pleas are becoming muffled
And there's a smile forming on my lips
Color returning to my cheeks
I came away clean
Your luck was not so good
Like your grasp of physics
In relation to the digging of hard black earth
Or your decreasing ability to breathe