Venom

Sink it deep and hard

Push every drop of venom

Into the vein once clean

Now full of spite and poison

Quickly racing to the brain

And to the rushing heart

Seeking the soul

Of its deadly mission

Pain means life hangs

Onto a degraded frame

Black blood now spoils

With eager desire

No antidote for such toxin

So lethally injected

Just a slow wait

For complete system shutdown

Only one secreted hit

From the viperous fangs

Of those once trusted

Changes life in an instant

It poisons wells of affection

And collects in the soul

Where its puddled remains

Remind of substance long ago

Lain deep underground

The host's blighted corpse

Leaks venom to dust

Blowing into a human throat