Elena's Dream

There's this girl

Wondering in the woods following a voice

It leads her to a snake nest

Copperheads I think

She's seen these same ones before, when it was cold out and they were dead

But now they're writhing around

The voice tells her it's a miracle

They've been resurrected

He tells her to put them up to her neck, like right around where my birthmarks are

He says they won't bite if she's truly faithful

So she does it, and they bite her like a million times

Then she's just lying there scared, abandoned, betrayed

I know it's a dream, but it made me so sad every time I had it

Then I heard somewhere that copperheads hibernate in the cold

So maybe the snakes were never dead to begin with

No miracle

I tried to remember that every night as I went to sleep

So she would know she was being tricked, but it never worked.

Then the dream stopped coming

Anyway, you left your jacket here, I've been wearing it around a little bit

You can just grab it next time