COBRAS AND THE MONGOOSE

Penitentiary

Grudge breeding

Hate rising

Like seething lava

Longing to gush out

And destroy

What all it can.

Lips spitting

The venom

Nurtured by self-hurt

For days and months.

Striking

Unexpectedly

With instinctive cunning.

There are so many cobras

And yet just one mongoose

Is enough

To deal with all of them.

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Composed long ago, posted on March 24, 2010.

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