You didn’t know who I was who I’ve been what I am now
You didn’t know
Yet you loved me
Loved the way my voice sounded as I recounted my latest victims
The way my skin was soft under yours as you were lulled into rest
The way the viper tongues kissed you as you learned about my curse that became your blessing
You loved it
And though you could not see
You loved me
So I loved you back
In every way I could
I loved you back
I loved the way you smiled and giggled when you met Athena
The way you always made me feel human
The way you promised to kill Poseidon for what he did to me and what Athena had to do
In the end, it led me to meeting you
Which made me learn to live
And laugh
And love again
Until I had to leave my corpse with you
Those unseeing eyes waking next to a beheaded body
I begged him to leave you with only a single viper to love until you were to meet me once more
Waiting at the lake of Mnemosyne
And we got to see truly see each other
Then you finally got to see my brown locks that were once copperheads
My red lips that you loved so much
And my eyes, that could kill with a stare, made you smile a smile brighter than Helios
And I got to see amber waves as beautiful as the day I first noticed them
The pink lips that had sung quietly as I listened from afar
And the eyes that could tempt Narcissus
I had fallen in love all over again
I saw you
You saw me
Yet we both fell in love blindly
A Snake’s Lifespan by Sophia Harris