Gargantuan creature,
Ruler of the jungle.
A muscular orange body,
Patrolling the forest floor.
Dinner plate paws,
Shuddering tropical surroundings,
Shivering, shaking with each step.
Agile ears,
Detecting every minute movement,
With a fading hope,
Of its next meal.
Curious amber eyes,
Scan the canopy of green above.
A silhouette of a hunter,
His visage dark and reckless.
Barrel pointing menacingly,
Between its panic-stricken eyes.
Blackness…
Like a candle,
Senselessly snuffed out.