The Journey, NES [you can read anyone .txt] 📗

The Journey Of Life

Down in your tranquil deep sea haven,
one day, upon yourself you take
a long and tiring, arduous journey,
a fateful trip you’ll have to make.

So up you go, with forceful strides,
a secret trail you follow,
soon you have reached the rivermouth,
t’once spat you out, will you now swallow.

And upstream, forward, on you swim,
through the calm and steady river.
But as your journey takes you further,
the flow gets quicker, the waters quiver.

And gradually, the once so broad
stream turns into a narrow brook.
The climb gets steeper, current stronger,
can you complete the task you took?

Your goal, your course, a pool
of clear and crystal water - bliss!
The place where you once ventured out,
on a voyage similar to this.

And now, white water rapids
are whirling with a thund’rous roar,
a foaming, crashing force of water
comes gushing down with untamed force.

But unperturbed you wriggle onward,
your slippery, glistening, blueish white,
strong and streamlined, perfect body.
Against the pull you’ll have to fight.

Up, across the rocks you jump,
through bottle-necks you steadily
inch your way forward ‘gainst the current
like a playing dolphin, so gracefully.

You know your birthing ground is near,
your instinct’s boiling, strength regained,
a few more jumps, and you have reached
the spring, your familiar pool reclaimed!

But yet, a mighty obstacle
of great danger stands in your way.
Your final jump may be your last,
because you are considered prey!

It is the mighty grizzly lurking,
and perhaps before your harvest’s reaped,
beside the brook, behind the rocks,
he could make your journey obsolete.

For only if you won’t be pierced
and slashed to bits by his sharp claws,
and won’t be gobbled up into
the dark oblivion behind his jaws,

only then you’ll reach your native pool,
and will fulfill your destiny.
But after you have given birth,
you’ll swim slowly, quietly,

deep down to the very bottom,
where, at last, in peace you rest,
in what is now combined in one,
your birthing ground and dying place.

Publication Date: 09-14-2011

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