Burying Themselves

Underground. They were preparing down here. Deepening themselves –

Burying themselves, more like –

But for what. What did they want? What were they looking for?

It was a way of exiting. Of leaving the world behind. They wanted to get out of things. To no longer be dependent …

They weren’t like us, subject to stuff. They didn’t have to justify themselves. Explain themselves in the world’s terms. They didn’t have to account for themselves. They were out of it, and out of everything.