| Along came a Serpent |
Fiery serpent coiled upon the ground With frigtening hiss and rattling sound Body so long... so thick... so round With one poisoned pinch, your weakness is found An older woman whose hair had turned gray Decided to walk on one bright shiny day Along a path woven into the ground The crackling of leaves was the only known sound When came to a fork, presented a riddle With a badly wounded rattlesnake right in the middle It lie there dying this dangerous creature A small little rattle was its only known feature Out of care in her heart she took this snake home Back the way she came, she started to roam To her tiny house made only for one In the thick of the forest, no light from the sun She nursed the serpent and took care of its wound While the sun was arise, in the dark of the moon She tended to him daily till he had grown well This beast from the forest, sent to it from hell It turned and it bit her, and then bit her again She lie dying of venom, enough to kill eight men She turned to him, her life so bleak inside her mind The poison coursing in her blood was making her go blind She said, "How could you do this, I helped you for christ's sake" To which it replied to her, "Bitch, you knew I was a snake" |