a snake from aesop

time gets away from
us some days
like today
as if two
hours
were so
quick and the
past six have been
eternities here
away from
you.

let me fill part
of an empty
that can't
be filled
let us soar over top the
lost components
and not look
back.
this is not why
we are here
but sometimes we must
live through what's
not meant to be
so we might find
what is
what was
what will be
meant to be
to the truths that
exist, to those exposed
yearning for the pictures
and wine and recognition
but no work
or help
or care

Aesop's Fables has an old
story about a hardworking
man who had a nice family
children, a wife, a house.
A man who led his family
through the good and the
bad. But one day he was
out hunting in the woods
and came across a wounded snake almost immobile
that had just enough energy to keep
itself alive for a short period of time
but needed the help of the man to
care for it.
So the man took the snake back to his
house and nursed the poor withered
creature back to health.
One night, the man's wife was
in the house admiring the snake
(as the story goes) and the snake
reared up, and bit the man's wife
giving the woman he loved a
near-fatal injury.
Just as quick as the man helped
the snake back to health, he took
the life back... killing the snake instantly
never looking back to the lifeless corpse.

Moral of the story?
Don't bite the hand that feeds you?
No...
They are merely snakes
And God-forbid they bite you...