digging for life

today i took a journey back in time,
i tasted the times medieval and roman,
it was a strange feeling as i took in my surroundings,
i heard the hustle and bustle of city life,
the skyline showered with buildings new and old,
i was at an archealogical dig site,
surrounded by wooden fence,
do you get my dig,
i saw so many layers of brick and stone,
i heard of fragmentations of bone,
two skulls lay in a well.. why?
half of an old mans body....where is the rest?
i felt as though i was on a world war two bombsite,
i was wrong!
this place was medieval/roman,
so much to see,
so much to take in,
so much to fill my mind with curiosity,
did they eat steak burgers under a neon light?
i'd rather that than fish soup from a rotten clay pot,
as i looked at the earth layer upon layer,
my mind was stripped layer by layer,
as i heard the stories of then until now,
the dig was a basement of secrets revealed to me,
i walked away, back to 2008 my curiosity sattisfied