Stolen Green

The snakes inside that boy entwine

Sickening him with their darkness

Shining and gleaming bright and green

Soaking up all of his luster and shine

Consuming each drop of his hopes and dreams

But leaving him with his heartache

This boy's left with too much heartache

As he watches his best friends entwine

He wishes to have that at least in his dreams

But his dreams are filled with darkness

Or snakes whispering that he'll never have shine

'Cept in eyes which have stolen their green

Those stolen eyes never radiate green

Anymore since that first day of heartache

Hiding their beauty not letting it shine

Gives the snakes less incentive to ensnare and entwine

Delaying the heartache, plunging heart into darkness

Allowing for deep sleep sans dreams

And when the boy is without his dreams

He is peaceful, lacking those flashes of green

Enveloped is he within welcoming darkness

Lacking the pain and forgetting the heartache

In the covers his legs can entwine

And he can rest, even without the shine

He figures he'll never again have his shine

It is lost forever, overpowered by dreams

In which the snakes endlessly entwine

Hissing nightmares focused on stolen green

Eternally plummeting him with his heartache

And leaving him gasping and aching for darkness

The peaceful nothing that comes with the darkness

While not half so good as the shine

At least replaces unbearable heartache

With comforting black in the night during dreams

And never again does he want stolen green

To intrude into thoughts and make snakes entwine

The darkness, he decides, can stay n his dreams

But bring back the shine and banish the green

To get rid of the heartache and stop the entwine