watch you sway in time
to fading light and blurred voices.
Tap their tongues, grinning wide
when your lights go out.
Snakes with blue eyes
slither down your hand,
down to their hole in the ground.
Shove themselves down your throat
so, you can’t make a sound.
Wrap round your thighs
turn them and your chest blue,
bite till you bleed
and leave their stains all over you.
Snakes with blue eyes
flicker their tongues “hello”
as if they’d never seen you before,
watch through chlorine steam,
eyes gleam, locked on prey.
Snakes with blue eyes
whisper sweet nothings when your world’s a mess,
night blowing through the open windows,
flicker tongues in soft caress
when he wants you to shed your skin.
Snakes with blue eyes
coil around your body
like it’s a treasure,
make you believe it is.
Like it belongs to them
and you feel warmth through their scales.
But, snakes with blue eyes
are the venomous kind
with an unquenchable hunger for fresher blood.
They’ll leave you, skin half shed and heart half-eaten
for a body that’s still breathing.