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The Serpent's Revenge

Watching you these days

Is like watching a snake bite victim

As his bulging eyes glaze

First a general malaise, then no hope of being saved.

 

The serpent's fangs injected venom

Deep into your veins and then the fear set in,

The anger penetrated your consciousness,

Pulse forcing poison, cutting off oxygen.

 

Higher and higher, your heart rate

Makes the venom strangle sooner,

Squeezing your heart in its burning hand,

This is the serpent's last revenge for you not being her man.

 

She sneers as she strangles

Surreptitiously from the inside of your chest.

Soon your lungs have deflated,

And your struggling heart is compressed.

 

All I know now is that I need to find,

A new heart for you, so I offer up mine.

I cut open my chest as my lungs begin seizing,

Extract my last gift and place it in your hands, bleeding.

 

But little did I know, I was a moment too late,

Because then in your eyes I saw you had accepted your fate.

You gasped your last breath, and I gurgled out mine.

The serpent has won. This is not the first time.

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Written by
tatiana-cody
American
Published
Nov 15, 2011
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I wrote this in Chemistry class this morning. While, you know... not taking notes.

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