The Jungle Law

Every living creature

Has been bestowed

With self surviving 

Arrangement by the nature

At the cost of 

Someone else’s life.

Once a woodpecker with

Sharp beak to save

Hatchlings, engraved a nest

On a high tree,

Finding first attempt

Foiled by a serpent

To make the way

To the nest slippery

By striking, making sticky

A lengthy snake was

Staring at the prey,

Climbed, found difficult,

Slipped, fell down

Directly into the wide

Open hungry jaws

Of a waiting crocodile