How To Trap A Snake

How to trap a snake?
How to touch and speak to one?
How to gently take it up,
and bleed its venom from the fangs?
How to talk
to those that love us,
when we fear them deep inside?
How to cure instead of hide?
How to fight with arms out wide?

How to meet one we might love?
To calm a storm, and yet stay dry?
To risk disaster, or not try?
To let love loose, or let love die?
To let a golden dragon fly?
To meet a snake,
or let pass by?

© Mark Sheeky. Permission is required for reproduction.