" 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, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year