I Lay In Wait

As I lay dormant in the grass, cold blood fuelling languid dreams I wait in silence for you to pass a harmless thing, or so I seem I lay asleep, my lidless eyes yet watching all that moves or may my callous brain computes the size and danger, marking some as prey Though I may lay here mute and still all my being's coiled and ready to snatch my quarry and quickly kill yet my pulse is slow and ever steady I lay as tranquil, as calm as death as you walk towards your waiting doom For I will smell your dying breath when I strike, here in the gloom