Salmon Envy

Curious title ... isn't it.

I envy the salmon, who simply
journeys home when it's time.
No matter where she may be, she
knows the way home, she just knows.

I too want to go home, back to
my security, to my peace, to
where I am somebody's everything.
I just want to go to that place
and curl up into fetal security.

But how does one go back
to a place that never was?

Reviews

[Kristina Moulaison]

I love the image you chose of a fish out of water. It causes me to imagine a child expelled from a mother's womb, a person who feels that the don't belong among their school. The first stanza here is exceptional. Very affecting poem. It makes me want to write more of it, which is interesting since I've recently sworn off writing. LOL

[icelandicblue]

That is the conundrum. We crave what wasn't and we want it back. Your analogy of the salmon is not lost on me...they go home but it is for the last time.

[Tom]

A captivating, imaginative poetic write, surreal and thought provoking indeed !

[Emily B]

how, indeed ...........................?

thoughtful, introspective work here