Little Fish
Little Fish swims
swims in the water,
alone in the tank
no one swims with him.
Other fish don't look his way
During mealtime, he would never eat.
When he tried, the other fish pushed
him away.
Little Fish would always get his
fins bitten and he looked like
skin and bones, nothing
but a mere skeleton.
Little Fish welcomed
loneliness as a friend,
Pain within his heart
crying to be loved by someone.
One day it was meal time,
Little Fish made his way to the top.
Happy with joy that he could get food first,
but that soon ended.
The other fish angered
minds clouded by greed,
beat him down
until Little Fish could not move.
After all the fish left,
Little Fish just stayed there in pain.
Little Fish looked up to the opening
in the light above.
With little strength he had,
Little Fish struggled to swim.
But he had made it to the top
still in pain and sorrow.
Little Fish looked back at the others
No one seemed to notice him,
nor did they care.
What did he have holding him here?
He swam backwards then shooting out of the tank.
He flopped for his life realizing it was a mistake,
for his gills burned for oxygen
like they were on fire.
Little Fish continued fighting
till the fight was out of him, he gave up.
He accepted his fate and laid there
until he took his last breath.
Little Fish still as stone
dried out like a raisin in the sun,
the other fish stared and did nothing.
Then they went on like nothing happened.
A man came by and picked Little Fish up and threw him away.
Little Fish abused, teased, and hated
thrown away for nothing;
like he never mattered.
Few days later, another fish arrives
the other fish stared,
then they began their cycle again,
of abuse as they did to Little Fish.
The new fish did the same as Little Fish.
Then a new one came and did the same,
one, two, three, four;
how many more?
The fish kept coming
until there was no more,
the other fish angered by this
turned against one another.
There sat an empty tank
full of corpses and bones of fish.
The man came back, looked at the tank
and like Little Fish he threw them away as well;
like they were nothing.