Snake Tongue

A little teen angst is good once in a while.

I am to blame

For the snake's venom

Dripping down the face of vengeance

 

As revenge is a double-edged sword

And both sides point it at me

And I plea to the puppetmaster of this tragedy

 

But tragically it's a mere reflection of what I try to do

As reflected truth reveals the crook

He who took premature ideals and mixed them with insoluble substances

To substantially increase the pain of both parties

Booting me through my own pain

 

The very speed I make to escape

Leads me back to the cage where I wrestle

The ideals of fiction and reality

Leading me straight out of sanity

 

Vulnerable with the door to my heart and mind unlocked

And as I try to talk to the snake,

The language barrier brings me to realize

That these eyes I stare into are mine,

Where my words bleed in the souls of others

Leading to a sense of negativity

Where I positively wish for the best

 

But the opposite occurs where the venom

bleeds into the very hearts of mere mortals

Blessing them into hell where they pit

In the very hole of troubles I dug myself into

 

So they're stuck in too, lead inside by own selfish pleads

And so I continue to plead to myself, insane to another

And as no other option occurs

 

I bite my own skin to let the venom circulate my veins

Where my previous efforts have lied in vain

Let it circulate through mine and no one else's

For the snake is impervious to thine own poison

 

Thus, leading to the suffering of one and joy of many

Where hopefully many come to grow to console

And two beings of same DNA, with minor mutations

Culture each other in each other's culture

And learn to grow beyond the immaturity of ignorance

 

Power is poison brought upon oneself by the purest of intentions

Accidentally, but intentionally creating an incident

in which it is impossible to declare the outcome

But of out of which comes a hatred between two beings

Brought together by the double-edged sword they now pit in each other's hearts.

 

-Jerisson DeLaCruz 10-2-11