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Rated: E · Poetry · Romance/Love · #1345970

Compares love to being bitten by a poisonous snake.

The serpent bites his ankle
Preventing him from moving on.
The pain spreads
And he doesn't know what's gone wrong.

Thoughts fly by him,
"Can't I just go back?"
The venom travels; stabs at his brain,
And all he sees is black.
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