Someone sinister has stolen her son
Her hopes, blood, and dreams
She's come fully undone

In the velvet of black
Coil and curl
He slithers
Sinuous
Preying
Driven only by greed

Plots and paths can be anfractuous
They twist and turn but do not break

Please be strong, darling
Like the dragon hoarding treasure,
he's only a snake

Heed the winding path
Evade viper attack
Tortuous
Slippery
Let your heart bring him back

She's now wound full circle
On this circuitous route
Despite all his hissing,
that Cobra's fresh out of clout

He thought money'd buy a child
ripped from their home
He thought he had won
An anfractuous peril,
An innocent son

Yet there's a light
in the labyrinth
An ace in the hole
The love of truth
and the truth of love
would be all that they'd need

Shiny serpent of glitters,
die alone with your gold
A life is a life
To be neither bought nor sold