Serpentine Heart

Sweet, slithering serpentine,

Honest and kind, sweet, sweet serpentine

You’ve tricked them deliciously

Sweet, slithering serpentine.

 

Sweet, slithering serpentine

Your forked tongue curls around the bitterest of words

And turns them to honey

Like water to wine.

Shimmering scales reflect suspicious questions

Away, away, away.

 

Sweet, slithering serpentine

You hardly remember that day

When your tongue tasted the power of dishonesty,

When your eyes could catch every opportunity,

When your thin fingers could construct a false world,

And when they could so easily constrict.

 

Oh sweet, slithering serpentine,

One dulcet drop of deception

And you were enraptured.

Harness the delicate art of lies,

Sweet, slithering serpentine,

Harness the authority

Over the eyes of another.

 

Use the mirrors,

Angle the truth,

They are ugly and you, you,

Oh, sweet, slithering serpentine,

Are the most eloquent of all.

 

Oh sweet, sweet, slithering serpentine.

How did you let your downfall deceive you?

What of your heart,

Sweet, slithering serpentine?

What of the venom that

Sparkled in your veins?

What of the web of falsities

That were threaded in your tissues?

 

Sweet, slithering serpentine,

What was lie and what was truth

Crossed a blurred line

That not even your sharp eyes could perceive.

With each darling twist of your tongue

Twisted your heart as well,

Until it was a knot that could not be undone.

 

Oh sweet, slithering serpentine,

Twisting and turning, sweet, sweet serpentine

 

Deception tricked you deliciously.