Hidden gems

Step by step I’m going down

a staircase to my inner depths

The deeper I go

the darker it gets

Familiar, yet strange places

I’ve never visited before

A hidden treasure chest

full of precious ore

The walls of this mine

cold and stark

Mirror the layers of my

heart’s own mark

Yet with every chisel

with each stone I turn

I unearth emotions and

lessons to learn

Deeper still

where darkness does bind

I face the echoes of an old weary mind

Yet it’s here

in the silence and vast unknown

That the purest of ores in me have grown.

And as I climb back

With each gem in my core

I find strength in the darkness

And shine evermore