the snake saw beauty for the first time
when it flew through the sky looking so divine
the snake wondered and pondered
how colors so beautiful existed
a flap of its wings and then it sank
onto the petals from which it drank
why was the snake not born with wings
it wanted to fly alongside the benign
the snake wished it could capture
as it stayed so still, enraptured
it tensed up as if ready to...
