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The Silent snake

The bird flutters gracefully in the air

Laughing at the prancing hare

The squirrels have races on the boughs of the trees

Whilst gaily hum the bumble bees

And while these creatures frolic and leap

The snake does silently slither and creep

 

The infant gurgles – its heartily pleased

While the young child teases, and is being teased

The teenagers giggle and they laugh out aloud

While the parents’ laugh is happy and proud

The extrovert has a good word and a smile

And each of these things, like rays, spread light around the miles.

 

The irascible man whose life is a closed book

With suspicion does, on everyone, look

He’s so very cunning, and is always alone

Like the snake that clings to the rock or the stone

And in their behavior, habits, and deeds both are quite alike

For they are cunning, deadly and shrewd; and its loneliness they seek and like