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                                          Sea Serpent


My uncle lives in a cabin near the mountains.
Every summer I would go visit him and go fishing.
But throughout the years,
people would come up missing.

You see, my uncle lives by an enormous lake.
And with it, are tales of a monsterous snake.
I've fished with my uncle there for years.
The tales of this serpent were never
among any of my fears.

One day, uncle and I were to go fishing
with some friends on a boat.
So we grabbed our poles,bait and coat.
I smiled, soon we would be on the lake, afloat.

We got on the boat and went to the center of the lake.
All of a sudden, the water started to bubble
and the boat quake and rumble.
And what was stealthly submerged,
had now clearly emerged.

An enormous figure with a forked tounge,
it was among the worst of nightmares.
It was a beast only the depths of hell could have brung.
And a nightmare I could never have dreamt,
had only just begun.

It was a murky, dirty brown color.
Gave off a rotten, indistiguishable odor.
And indeed large enough to swallow
a small ship whole.

I watched this thing rise
out of the water with much surprise.
However, the worst part
about it were the the eyes...

The eyes resembled a snake.
Except outside the black, diamond
shaped pupils were a shiny orange-gold flake.

Inside those evil eyes, was a deep burning hate.
An ancient creature that's survived countless years.
Looking up at it and paralyzed, feeling so small and it so great.
Whose eyes instilled raw, unimaginable fears.

It sat poised, hissing with it's forked tounge flicking.
It's frightening razor sharp teeth
were glistening, with dirty murky water dripping.

It was then we started to scream
at this thing we have seen.
It lunged before we could escape,
and torn apart our boat.
To pieces of debri I tried to cling.
With pieces of our boat
I tried to stay afloat.

My uncle and his friends were overpowered,
and I watched in horror as each one was devoured.
It was then I blacked out.
I awoke on the sandy shore of the lake in a daze.
Layed there soaked, the awful events all a haze.

With tears I watched the sun set in the distance,
and a faint ripple in the water, slowly diminish.