SLEEP HERE TONIGHT!
Old Solomon was restless
in his afternoon siesta--
He awoke with fear in his face
and something to say.
His was an old man's dream
which made him seem to be
a woman of long ago.
She had a baby in the grave.
She came one night
to the cemetery, to lay flowers
at the stone and pray for the child.
She couldn't get up from the grave--
She had caught her apron strings
in the ground somehow.
There was crying and she heard a voice
that said "Mother?"
The woman fainted.
When she awoke, she heard crying again:
"Mother, sleep here tonight!"
June 19, 1969
