Should I go to the British Museum?

2006
I’m surfing couches in South Croydon easy
Fish n chips shop by the bus stop, then a train lot
Finding a heavy pound to find my way downtown
River Thames trotting, I’ll go to the Tate Modern
to see Kandinsky

2009
I’m strutting in Holborn cuz saturdays equal youth
I’m an early-ish adopter with first tweets through the ether
Should I go to the British Museum
Then 1 pound was 1.9 dollars, now 1.4 hmm holler
I am wandering the hallways
drifting towards Chinese history

2019
Sundays in Fruitvale, sunny with friends 
We’re standing in
Watching kids for moms and dads 
Teachers and trainers
Reading books to children
A trip to the museum
Page turner, marvels and treasures
Wow, look!
Then a crisp whisper behind me
Don’t forget to mention 
that most everything is stolen
Kid

2021 or 1939
What happens if museums close due to wars
And a man is determined to dig in the dirt
When the mounds are so big
And the trowel is the huge excavator
Does the size of ambition
Meet the scale of support
To go digging for stories, nay layers 
As if they were archeological soothsayers
Foreseeing an opportunity to find the bones of a ship 
that sailed into the future through the lip
of the earth, then bones dug deep but not in poverty
Meet a landowner, an overseer of grounded property 
Skeletons that may remain undisturbed
not memories in buildings so perturbed
The truth lies in your love of the dirt
So one could dig with their fingers or just dig with their heart
to find out that beneath we are not a world apart.