One day,
we walked,
on the sidewalk,
Mom screams,
I freeze,
Sister,
walks past it,
without noticing,
Marines scared.
There infront of us was a
dark,
mysterious,
a four foot long snake.
We ran as fast as we could
never to return again,
(until a month later) .
M.J. Daniels
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/it-happened-at-shurijo-shuri-castle/