Push and Dig

sweat

 

dig

 

sweat

 

 

 burn

 

push

 

burn

 

 

 hands 

 

 hurt

 

but 

don't care

 

keep going

 

push through pain

 

the only way to finish 

 is to get mean

 

dig out dirt

 

dig out weeds

 

 back fill trenches

 

level  compost

 

 

 blazing sun is my enemy

 

water my friend

 

    I may choose to burn alive for you

 

     just to get my rocks off

 

 

     I may choose to  bury myself

    just to see if I can claw back out

 

     push and dig

     sweat and bleed

 

     it feels  great to be tortured like this

 

 

    blood is dripping down my legs

 

     still sore    from   ripping up a dead shrub to shreds

 

      outside of oak tree bar when the ducks lost  to LSU

 

     f**k       s**t          d****t

 

     I''m still pissed about that damn game

 

    I just pulled out a

 splinter (6 days later)

 out of my

  left hand

       from that

  ape s**t moment

 

     let me burn

 

     let me bleed

 

   let me get buried

 

  f**k it

 

 

      blood dripping down pages

 

    to    a story   I'm thinking about writing

 

     but I'm still trying to get my head wrapped around your redwood trunk

 

     the only way to finish

     is to get mean

 

     push and dig

 

   all your life

 

    trust and give       

 

       your heart inside

 

      only if it's safe, 

 

 been there before when it wasn't

 

    never again, will I  will I   Will I 

 

    give treasures to someone who vomits black vile   in my face

 

      I could do that to myself whenever I feel like

 

   all I have to do is press Play from the Past and watch my own DVD

 

     push and dig

 

     bleed and sweat

 

     curse and hit

 

     the only way to finish is to get mean

 

     f**k it   

 

                          I'm on my own.  

 

 

Reviews

[Scott Lee]

thanks, that's the best line of the whole damn simple poem

[Brandon S. Whitten]

I love it! Simple, passionate and just damn good. Favorite line,"all I have to do is press Play from the Past and watch my own DVD" Excellent!