The Fable Of Two Snakes In The Grass

Allegory (Fable-Parable) Poetry Contest Crystol Woods They were two snakes in the grass buried in the pit of life now bemoaning their past with hisses, coils and strikes she constricts he restricts venom spewing out she thwarts his advances and he thwarts hers stubbornness seeding in the pot of mystery in the rock bottom garden of life ... yet there they were continuously watching their every movements like jealous lovers but in this case like adversaries like the proverbial snakes in the grass her eyes would pierce his his eyes would send chills down her back on and on, on and on these two battled, battling night and day then one day and once upon a time story has it a huge earthquake hit it hit faith ... it hit destiny it hit the rock bottom garden pit, sending the pair twirling around twirling around on top of each other like a washing machine and when the tremors stopped and when the cycle stopped spinning there they were ... the pair was on top of each other ... sparkling clean and rebooted now their eyes soften and their coats insulate the heat felt good they nudge closer together, sniffing Heaven for once changing their venom to love, being pregnant with happiness and soon a nest of little ones, too so cute to see these babies boom that even the two snakes in the grass are beaming beaming a new found purpose in life olive branches of tremors, fate a fortuitous bounce N/A