Snake Dance

"The Priestess Snake Dance" Art by Vasilis Zikos

See the serpent wide its way
around your pumping heart
Feel her now constricting
Your life is torn apart

Soon you will be empty
And then she’ll slink away
She slithers, yellow eyes alert
Stalking her next prey

While on the dirt you struggle
For one more final breath
Your lover will be charming
Another marked for death.