Traitorous kinsmen will make you sad
As water and shade do harm when bad.
You need not sword-like kinsmen fear
Fear foes who feign as kinsmen dear.
The secret foe in days evil
Will cut you, beware, like potter's steel.
The evil-minded foe within
Foments trouble, spoils kinsmen!
A traitor among kinsmen will
Bring life-endangering evil.
Discord in kings' circle entails
Life-destroying deadly evils.
A house hiding hostiles in core
just seems one like the lid in jar.
By secret spite the house wean out
Like gold crumbling by file's contact.
Ruin lurks in enmity
As slit in sesame though it be.
Dwell with traitors that hate in heart
Is dwelling with snake in selfsame hut.
SECRET FOE
