yvette smith - Fish

A flash of silver under light

I watch you swim away

Lost under a deep blue sky

A slip of silk

A thin translucent light

And then I watched the bait the hook

The bite you took

The rip and the tug of the line on flesh

I had loved you for a short while


Now I watch your body strain and toss

your lungs puff in and out like flapping wings

I watch you wriggle to break free

From that strange hook that drew you in

Your silver fleck now dry and cold

And what was love has now grown cold


I stand apart and helpless watch you die

Strange fish, and wonder why?

yvette smith

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