| The fish swirled and spiralled and circled around the glass Choking in a pool of poison given by his captor His prison all but guaranteed to be his demise He’d no hope of escape as he was isolated But for one fish outside the glass who witnessed this crime Who willed the victim to break free of the toxic brew Retching and riving and suffocating in the glass He glimpsed at his companion refracted and warped Her gold scales barely visible through the toxic haze How he longed to swim beside her in the fresh water Alas he was weak, soon the poison would consume him He channelled his remaining strength in one leap of faith The fish torpedoed and sprang and flew out of the glass And reached the open water to meet his companion Freedom from his captors was at last reality To feel water pass through his gills where snake venom flowed He looked back to find the glass shattered into pieces And began to doubt whether it existed at all He began pondering and pacing and postulating The fish realised he was in fact not a fish at all He was merely a thought cycling like a tornado Now free from torment and strangulation of self-doubt No longer bound by the institution that trapped him He was now an emperor conquering his own destiny |
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