Mother Snake

By dark_sister

The softness and the sweetness
is making me wretched.
Biting my tongue.
I want to be growled at
and raked over the coals.
A longing for a hardness I'll never have.
The tough, steel-eyed girl I'll never be.
My eyes are cursed with
some kind of honey magic,
when what I need is venom
and sharp, sharp snake teeth.

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Copyright 2003 dark_sister
Published on Monday, June 2, 2003.     Filed under: "Poetry"
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  • A former member wrote: I feel like this almost every day, people often push me around.

  • A former member wrote: its really nice and i have been where you are :)

  • SorrowSoul On Thursday, July 7, 2005, SorrowSoul (54)By person wrote:

    Subtle and very striking work.

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