Down In The Ground

<br>I am not afraid when you call me down<br>down the basement steps under the house<br>down, down in the ground<br><br>black cows are limping, the white dogs bark<br>crickets are screaming, smoke in the barn<br>just like a field snake eating a mouse<br>just like a blue gill, hook through its mouth<br>down, down in the ground<br><br>cry for the toy trains lost in the snow<br>cry for the dead deer surrounded by crows<br>you call me softly down in the dark<br>down where the red worms circle like sharks<br>down, down in the ground<br><br>under the black mud in your quiet house<br>you have prepared my place to lie down<br>a house in the rock where sorrows drown<br>old man or baby make no more sound<br>down, down in the ground