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Garden of Hollow Serpents

They descend not wearing velvet robes

stitched from honest stars,

but garments woven

from borrowed halos,

perfumed with white lilies

that never knew their roots.

 

They speak of stillness

as though silence were a temple;

of gentleness

as though mercy were a language

their sweetened tongues remembered.

 

They sell the purest serenity

like merchants beneath eclipses,

placing peace

upon polished altars,

asking only

for another soul to kneel.

 

Do not mistake

the absence of thunder

for the absence of venom.

 

Some serpents

have learned

to hiss between prayers.

 

Some abysses

have memorized

the vocabulary of light.

 

Beneath their gardens

grow neither jasmine nor magnolia

only moonlit pitcher plants,

their chalices open,

sweet with impossible nectar,

waiting for exhausted butterflies

who mistook hunger

for kindness.

 

There,

the blossoms bloom inward.

 

Petals become sharp teeth.

Fragrance becomes slow-wave sleep.

Roots become shackles,

coiling around ankles

too hopeful

to question beauty.

 

They preach stoicism,

yet harvest every trembling heart.

 

They praise compassion,

yet count mercy

only when it is bleeding.

 

They glorify forgiveness,

because forgiven wounds

are easier to reopen.

 

I have seen them—

keepers of immaculate orchards,

watering white roses

with borrowed sunlight,

while beneath the soil

countless sunflower corpses

lie hollow,

their gold devoured

to adorn another mask.

 

They call themselves shepherds.

 

Yet wolves have always known

how to imitate

the patience of snowfall.

 

The oldest predator

is not rage,

it is tenderness

performed

without a soul behind it.

 

In the deepest caverns,

where no dawn enters,

the ancient serpents

shed not their skin,

but their faces.

 

Each new smile

another immaculate prophecy.

 

 

 

 

 

Each embrace

another silent eclipse.

 

And those

who truly carry light

never ask

to be worshipped.

 

They bloom quietly,

like wild chamomile

between forgotten stones,

asking nothing

except stillness.

 

For real gardens

never hunger

for the sunflowers

that seek shelter.

 

Only carnivorous flowers

measure love

by what remains

after the petals

have disappeared.

 

So when they speak

of peace,

look beneath their roots.

 

When they preach

stillness,

listen for the bones

buried beneath the moss.

 

And when they promise

to save your sugared soul,

watch,

whether their shadows

lean toward your light,

or away from it.

 

For the oldest false prophet

was never the loudest.

 

He whispered

like rain upon marble,

held out

a blossom without scent,

and smiled

while somewhere,

far beneath the earth,

the abyss

opened its mouth

like a flower trap.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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