The Adderhead
One night to my garden I walked
Peace and beauty abound
I saw my love beneath a tree
And quickly turned round
An adderhead slithered and started to talk
My love listened to the adderhead
It hissed poisons in her ear
I stood powerless to the adderhead
At times I think it was fear
The adderhead bit my love that day
My love suffered from its poison bite
I tried to kill it, I tried to fight
But the adderhead slipped away
I vowed to kill the adderhead
Leaving my garden till it was dead
I had suffered and my love suffered more
I found the adderhead and pinned it to a floor
It hissed and spat and bit its own tail
It died of its own poison, yet none was set right
Peace and beauty abound
I saw my love beneath a tree
And quickly turned round
An adderhead slithered and started to talk
My love listened to the adderhead
It hissed poisons in her ear
I stood powerless to the adderhead
At times I think it was fear
The adderhead bit my love that day
My love suffered from its poison bite
I tried to kill it, I tried to fight
But the adderhead slipped away
I vowed to kill the adderhead
Leaving my garden till it was dead
I had suffered and my love suffered more
I found the adderhead and pinned it to a floor
It hissed and spat and bit its own tail
It died of its own poison, yet none was set right
My love still suffered, my gardens still sullied
All because of the adderhead's bite.
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