This poet felt the need to write a poem about my so called "friends" who claimed to be nice, kind but turned out to be all fake, toxic. I call such peoples snakes who will hurt you while shaking your hand. I was inspired to write this after hearing my own unreleased song called "Toxic Traits". I also talked about this in my poetry series titled "Ashes of Us", which is about betrayal in friendship. In 2026, this poem was selected for "Diverse Voices: The Poetry of Human Rights and the Pursuit of Peace" anthology by poetrysoup.com.
death came from rattle snakesbuild a fort just to dig his graveair became thinner insidewith every single inhalemesmerized by the good feelinghis obscured vision of lovecouldn’t differ between words or placesmemories that still haunt him at dawn
one common bite and 100 different facesexcruciating pain and smile on their facesblack dahlia flourished in my rose gardenmy eyes rained, someone punctured the cloudscandals that can ruin lives, lies that can take livesa friend is not a friend of yoursbeware of those snakeswho befriend you and kill your soul