A Life for Less Than

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For the broken who remain gentle.

A small senseless creature crawls about freely.

It hunts and eats as we do,

it builds a home and sleeps as we do,

it has a family and lives in solidarity as we do. 

This species, like many others, is not much different from you and I.

The eight legged arachnid is merely trying to live,

No, is simply demanding to survive.

Yet, they live a life in fear and hiding.

Even though we are the ones cowering. 

Bread to believe all spiders are deadly.

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They never stood a chance, not now, not in this circumstance. 

To be granted a spider's fate is to be dealt the worst hand. 

A ruthless, quick, cold-hearted end. 

There is no mercy at the hands of the frightened.

Fear is a breath of air found in the lungs of the livened.

Therefore, when the time comes in which you spot a spider.

Do not be brash, step back and open your eyes a little wider. 

If an unsuspecting giant were to catch you lurking,

Then why should it grant you the mercy you aren’t capable of showing?

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Kyra Nehme is a second-generation Lebanese immigrant born and raised in Ontario, Canada. Kyra is a Professional Writing student at Algonquin College who is a passionate and outgoing writer determined to share her works with the world with the goal of cracking a smile or touching a heart. She hopes to be the voice for all the little spiders out there, trying their best to survive!