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
Anfractous: definition is wound throughout the poem.
For
a dear friend in need,
and against
the incompetence
of certain family custody courts.