the baby and the cobra

before our eyes

what do we see

adults playing silly buggers

a cobra it be

spitting away and pouncing like hell

as the child moves in closer

to a living hell

clearly a threat

hangs over the child

do you imagine the cobra

that snake

that is wild

can relax its power

and turn it to play

frankly think

it can anyway

adults all around

enjoying the show

the baby creeps closer

he doesn’t know

no understanding

of violence at all

the menace in front of him

bluster and gall

the babies crawls onwards

taking the strike

the adults laughing loudly

its something they like

but it is child abuse

on a terrible scale

with a cobra around

just making me pale

we ought to get angry

and ought to be sad

that adults let this happen

for clearly its mad

to leave a child really

in the coils of a snake

and its sentimentality

just for the sake

of entertaining some friends

believing that they

imagine the snake will

just go away