Short-Lived

Unloved and unnoticed

He fell to the ground.

A burden for his mother -

A weakling in her eyes.

His life, so pitifully short,

Was merely one of countless.

The green eyes of a viper, vicious and hungry,

The last thing he ever saw.

For a few short days, he experienced the world.

Yet his only memory was of his crowded home.

Dying was nothing to him

As he never knew what living meant.

Areebah Ozara Elham is a student of Class VIII in Sunnydale School.