Medusa

Towering marble columns spiral into the murky grey sky
Dim light illuminates the filthy cracked overgrown courtyard
Poisonous jade green ivy curls around the eerie bone white statues
Cold figures stand frozen in time looks of terror on their pale stone faces

A strange shape steps lightly out the gloom
She wears a ink black toga that falls like rippling water
Her eyes are toxic emerald
Ashen skin covers her gaunt face
Shinning ruby scales gleam like jewels in the faint light
Writhing deadly scarlet snakes hiss and spit lethal venom
The ferocious snakes coal black eyes pierce through the shadowy courtyard
A elegant snow white hand brushes the hard smooth statues of fallen heroes
Her destructive form vanishes into the once majestic crumbling temple