The fish in the sea

Others look in on my feelings

Like gold fish in their glass bowl

Only if I remembered this feeling for 3 seconds

Life would not sting as much

Although this sting keeps me swimming.

I am the struggling worm on the hook

Others wonder why I struggle here

Yet I want nothing more but to be stuck forever, no matter how it hurts

I catch nothingnoff this line

But my reel is yet to reach an end.

-Jerry Wooters

Comments

  1. rebeccah pilgrim says

    The speaker in the poem, is it a fish or someone fishing? I only ask because the poem starts with the speaker as a fish but at the end you say “I catch nothing”.

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