Ogunkoya Adeleke

“A snake bites your ankle.
Recoiling, you scream.
Fearing poison, your mind slips into a dream...

...where a man bites your ankle.
Expecting no guile,
'Again' softly falls from your lips with a smile.

Yet the man and the snake are the same.
Your perception is only to blame.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year