A/N: Written for the Mega Prompts Challenge, word prompts #175 - hapless.
No-one's Coming Out of their Hidey-Hole
One day he could show all those others
and himself – that he was big and strong
and not the sort of guy who'll hide again
behind a tree, watching someone
being pushed down, falling
for no good reason except they were small
and nobody like him were climbing out
of their hidey-holes to help.