Silver-Tongued Snake
Silver-tongued snake
Pretty words fall from your lips like gems
emerald scorpions and sapphire toads
stinging as they hit
the meaning behind them is ugly as the waste of world's end
and I wish I could throw them all back at you
make you bleed on their sharp edges
let them wrest your skin from your body
as you tried to wrest my heart from mine
but my words are swept away
insignificant as sand in a storm
they cannot keep their meaning as they fly from my mouth
but twist into something I never wanted them to be
something you helped me turn into
something bitter and stinging
and soft as the killing snow
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