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The Snake's Supper
My teeth have mashed the flesh of your lust,
Tasted your sin, so rich and robust.
You fed me so well, a diabolic fiend,
The innocence you stole- I gleefully gleaned.
A pity, it is, that you’re chewed beyond bone,
Your body is gone, your soul a mere stone.
It was a torturous death that you did not sense;
Poisoned by evil and soothed by pretence.
How aware did you think you could possibly be:
Being drunk on hell’s pleasure, rev’ling with me?
Dining and dancing with the notorious Beast;
You must have known this was an unholy feast.
A goblet of wine in which hate is imbued;
This is the draught that you simmered and stewed.
Murder, wrath, the bloody vice of your choice;
A deftly cut throat, the theft of a voice.
Your hands are spotless; the scene hardly exists.
Their name is washed away; their presence: unmissed.
But there’s a stain inside you, an insidious mold;
It reeks of damnation and forms a foothold.
What a mortal affliction; the facade of man’s youth;
To think you are safe from the death within truth.
The meal was quite palatable, but I’ve ordered a cake;
You should’ve known, guiltless child, not to deal with the Snake.
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I wrote this after thinking about mafia members, gangs, etc., and how their crimes and cruelty catches up eventually, whether that be in life, in death, or some other way. It is kind of an allegory, perhaps more of a metaphor, piece.
I am pretty happy with how it turned out! Let me know what you think, and if you see anything that I could potentially improve!