Body gasp bone grasp
on sighting a snake!

Recoil like this is the memories
Though some are more elaborate
Played out like a fantasy scenario
Meant to tease out terror
Reaction

These such are my remembrances
Of means of death in lives past

I remember them in vivid reaction
Because they are my very last memories
Of times of lives of yore
Vivid thus
Long held, unknown, in my memory store
Utterly obscure from the vague before