A Miner

Breathing dust

in the darkness,

my grandfather,

straining muscles,

til the cave in.

What happened next

no one knows,

cept his spirit moved on.

Sometimes I imagine him,

a man who took

his ill friends shift,

to never return home.

What do I carry of him?

Would I take my brothers/sisters shift?

Would I walk into the darkness?

Would I breath

in the dust of earth?

Yes, dear grandfather,

I will take my brothers/sisters shift.

I will walk into the darkness.

I will breath

in the dust of earth.

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