What to do when Your Ally is a Hydra or Hydra for an Ally

The first time we met, they were clever and warm,

impressively skilled,

bright, blue-eyed thing.

As the clocks ticked away,

midday passed,

shadows began to grow on

my good friend's face

Until a new face emerged,

hidden behind the first,

an ugly, rude, unbearable thing

with a selfish pride and a boastful forked tongue,

Beady blue eyes and a demon's grin

That hydra of an ally,

that blue-eyed demon,

that deception, that dishonesty,

that poor judgement of mine.

To expel them from my ranks is to walk to mine own execution.

I will not see the day they spit poison at me.