It can be hard to spot a snake in the tall, grassy fields of life. Some snakes wear camouflage, smile in your face and even sleep in your bed.
In fact, you could live along side a snake for years and years, share meals, share a home, while still this sneaky snake could be jamming it's venom, soaked daggers deep into your turned back.
Sure, it will have charm, it will hide it's slithering ways. But a snake will always slip up, you'll eventually find it out hunting and catching rats. There's no hiding while you're still digesting.
Your snake will hiss and spit words of how it will shed it's skin and it will change, evolve even. But, a snake will always be a snake.
Cunning snakes sometimes attempt to remove some of those knives they implant in your spine, yank them out, one at a time. Maybe they'll even cover them up with some bandaids. Bandaids don't fix the bleeds from these wounds. The poison is still there, seeping deep into the fleshy parts of your soul.
As for the antivenin, some say; the only good snake, is a dead snake..
But I'm not really about wishing any creature death, even if such critters seem sent from the deepest pitts of hell.
So, prevention is better than the cure. Look out for snakes in the lush pastures of your future. Learn to identify the creepy critters and the parasites that you may encounter. Take measures to keep them out of your home and your heart. Keep an emergency extermination plan handy. But also, don't be afraid to trust nature, not everything out in the grass is a danger noodle or equivalent.
**Disclaimer**
The snake is metaphorical and I'm sorry to use the good name of our friendly snakey wildlife, it is an utter insult to my reptilian serpent friends everywhere.
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Also, I'm in no way an expert on either kinds of snake, but however I have spent quite some time handling both said species and one of those I'm more proud of than the other.
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