Snake
Illustration from Deliria RPG
(“Goblin Market” suppliment)
Text written by Elizabeth Jordan Leggett

From the Tree
The Snake could see
The world beyond the Gates.
It had been so long
With the apple gone
The two had sealed their fates.

So from the Tree
A branch he broke
And an apple rotted there
He took a seed
And slithered out
And planted it with care.

But what inside the Gates
Was once a simple seed
Beyond the Gates and in the world
Twins sprung up from Man’s Need.

One twin was Want
We all know him
And he knows us I’ll bet
The other is Attachment
With him we cry and fret.

The two twins share a common face
And they chose the self same bride
Her name is Fear
She clings so near
The groom she stands beside.

Fear’s womb brought forth
Twins of her own
From each dread brother’s seed
Her daughter’s name Obsession
Her son’s name simply Greed.

Each human soul
Has met them all
Each member of this clan.
The Snake’s foul plot
And Apple rot
The test and death of Man.

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