fill thy mouth with laughing

The danger below.

Down here, it's very deep and thick,
and covered with rock and stone.
The digging takes years, perhaps a lifetime,
and parts of a person are often lost along the way.
It's dangerous this far below,
but somewhere down here is a measure of truth,
just a bit of real honesty,
and if it takes a wound or two to reach that truth,
that's not too high o…