Serpent Hive -

I slide between the shadows

Of the righteous and the wicked

Manipulate your convoluted senses

Shade my path and sweep my tracks

No one must see

No one will see

No one can see

What’s driving me

My life blood is your weakness

I can smell it, it reeks of shit

I will slither up and strangle you

You won’t see me till you can’t breathe

Motives unseen

Motives unseen

Motives unseen

Deep down, even by me

With my split tongue

I can smell your vulnerability

And it reeks of sensitivity

And honesty

Exploit in you what I hide in me

I don’t respond to empathy…

Cold-blooded and odourless

Skin of diamond shed

To reveal a terrified serpent in place

Of a heart

No one must see

No one will see

No one can see

What’s driving me

Motives unseen

Motives unseen

Motives unseen

Deep down, even by me

Desire, truth, integrity, humility, insecurity

They are my canvas, my clay, that I sculpt and colour To feed my ravenous ego

Shelter and suppress my inadequacy

From denial deliver me

So I can reasonably

Deride myself

With my underbelly

So close to the ground

I don’t even

Cast a shadow