The Serpent fled into the wild,
Amidst the brambles and the bracken green,
Limbless save for his whipping tail,
Which swam him through tall grasses unseen,
He closed his ears forever more,
To shield his mind and heart from Yahweh’s voice,
And swore a vow to never speak,
To men and women whom he gifted with choice,
Tired from slithering day and night,
Into a hole he stealthily crept,
This hole was of the softest clay,
‘Twas the womb of Lilith as she slept,
For she like Adam arose from dust,
And like the Serpent, a being outcast,
She perceived not that creeping guest,
Which coiled snugly within as she sleep fast,
Poor Lilith dreamed of her lover lost,
As the sheltered Serpent shifted and squirmed,
Lilith sighed a shuddering breath,
For the Serpent’s girth was both smooth and firm,
When morning came she did arise,
To find her belly grown round and swollen,
But watched in amazement as it shrank,
When the Serpent departed from whence it had stolen,
At her feet with glistening scales,
Which shone as the moistened grass bedewed,
The Serpent smiled up at her,
And spake to her in his manner sly and shrewd,
“Fear ye not, Oh Crownless Queen,
I am no fruit of thy luxurious womb,
But in payment I have left my seed,
Behind in exchange for the cozy room,
A serpent-spawn thou wilt carry,
Leviathan for her name I do propose,
And it shall mate with Jörmungandr,
To birth the cosmic Ouroboros,
And Quetzalcoatl will soar on high,
Beside fierce Tiamat, his bethrothed twin,
Whence they will feast on angel’s flesh,
And drink the briney wine of bloody sins,
Our monstrous progeny will grow,
In size and in number to rule both earth and sky,
Man and his beasts will be their food,
Yahweh will flee to deepest Hell and futilely cry!”
Lilith stretched her supple form,
A shadow of desire against the dawn’s pink rays,
She regarded him with curved lips,
And murky eyes which held a demon’s gaze,
“Oh Limbless King, thou didst creep,
Like a night-clad thief into my fertile womb,
Let all my children hence be fiends,
That bring about mankind’s deserved doom!”
And Serpent said to her blankly and loudly…
“What?”
For he had made himself deaf the day before.
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