This One Snake Dream

They say dreams have meanings

Sometimes I'd say that's true

But just last night on a full moon

I had this dream and I didn't know what to do

The snake was striped

Red, yellow and black

It slithered toward me

And then started to attack

Next thing I knew

The view had changed

I looked down at my forearm

To see a big hole was gaged

It was black and ashy

But I found myself digging right in

To pull out something long

It was a snakes dead skin

Just when I thought it was over

I thought I’d wake up

The scene changed again

And I was back to a close up

The snake was facing me directly

Mimicking every direction I turned

It’s green eyes kept on staring

As if eventually I’d get burned

It was like looking in a mirror

Because I have green eyes too

Then there’s that saying, ‘to be a snake’

But no one knows that about me, no way you do

How did this dream

This snake, I mean

See passed me so easily

I thought I’d wiped myself clean

I guess there’s no way of hiding

This deceitful personality

I mean I didn’t ask you to trust me

Life’s a game in reality

Just when I thought it was over

Really, this time I did

The dream changed one more time

To find myself in grass, well hid

It was like I was the snake this time

Seeing myself through it’s eyes

Laying low in the tall grass

Concealing myself from all my lies

I saw my father flying over me

I heard a ringing of a bell

I slithered over a grave

But whose name, I couldn’t tell

My father was a pilot

Church bells rang every Sunday

I missed the funeral that one time

Because selfishly I wanted a fun day

And then it happened all at once

I woke up startled, in sweat

My heart was pounding like a drum

I got the lesson—to own my debt

If I had known the consequences

I would have second guessed my choice

If I knew it would come back to haunt me

My head wouldn’t be filled with all this noise

Snake dreams are crazy

I’ve never had one like this before

But if it is any constellation

It will make you want to better a little bit more