Holes That He Dug

Day after day

He dug up dirt.

Today it was a grave

For an old man named, Burt.

 

What a rotten job

To do all his life,

But someone had to provide

For his sons and his wife.

 

To the cemetery,

He is just a slave –

Spending every  day

Digging up graves.

 

The forty years spent digging

Have, on his face, begun to show -

But, that today he would be digging his grave,

He could never have known.

 

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