Down.
They went down.
Into the darkness.
I have seen; when I close my eyes, dreams assail,
they are down there.
In the darkness.
They cannot scream.
You mustn’t scream down there.
You can only go down.
There is a well.
It is a very old well.
It was here before us.
Before we moved here.
Before the Normans.
Or Romans.
Before any people who still have names.
Maybe before people.
Before they laid stones around it.
The hole.
They heard about it.
Did tests.
Said it was very old.
They went down.
They were nice people.
They didn’t scream.
