Love Lies Beneath by Ellen Hopkins

Author:Ellen Hopkins
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Atria Books

Shed of Skin

Freed within her exile, the serpent

slithers boldly, strikes

without compassion,

splendor in the death dance.

Ah, patient is my sister.

No hurry now but to sup

before the meal grows cold,

she enfolds her victim tenderly,

awaits the egress.

Therein lies the victory.

Could Eve have denied her,

so beautiful in patterned scales, cool

in calculated treachery, sensuality

defined in the flick of her tongue?

Temptation is her legacy.

Enhanced by evolution,

perfected by time’s passing,

she expels the weight of Eden

in gushes of sweet venom.

To grow, she must leave herself behind.

Subtle stretch. Elastic. Pinpricks

of sensation. Inner fabric gives

way in painless liberation.

Sister emerges, new.

Sin such as this commands envy.

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