Tireless hours fleeting away with more vigor now than before Tedium, wallowing helplessly, while I use my pick and keep digging I’m digging to find the hidden agenda, the reason for me to survive I’m digging to bury my past incarnation, I’m digging to conceal my life My actions don’t follow me, they’ve blocked off the exit from the mine And the shafts that hold the lumbering earth at bay seem indifferent My self is the true menace It despises my flesh and recants my existence It lunges at me in the darkness, striking at me with its claws My eyes glow ice blue in the reflection when I see him And I tepidly back into the wall As clods first break off and larger chunks follow The grey skin of my self shimmers and the beast broadens its shoulders He pounces as the ground crashes in all around us My death is his beginning