Treasure
I dug I dug I dug
I dug through stone
I dug through dirt
I dug through the fault lines of the earth
All my life I dug
Throwing dirt over my shoulders
Casting boulders aside
Ignoring the old skeletons of animals
And of my ancestors
I dug through the pain in my shoulders
I dug though the pain in my back
I dug and I dug
I was willing to dig
To the center of the earth itself
I was willing to dig through shale
And limestone and into the quartz
Through living and dead animals and plants
Mudstone, shale, sandstone
Through the Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Cenozoic
Through all the epochs of the earth
I was never too tired
I just kept digging and digging
Oh love, even when my arms grew tired
I kept digging and digging and praying and praying
Until I found you.