Living through my life Swimming up stream My mind smashing Against Rocks and Rocks As I am rejected and rejected As am constantly thrown back and back Again and again
As I am a small fish weighed down By the cranking cogs that compress and jam For in my mechanical mind I carry the scales Of past and future Success and failure
But as I slip into My silvery salmon body I release the many battles Fought within As positive and negative Are both rejected For I seek the silent Narrow path
Freed from my ego Rocks make no impression As all dissolves away And I feel the rush so lush Of my white wonderful stream As I effortlessly bounce And bounce up stream
I leap and reach Once more I stretch But once again I am defeated This time landed Devoured and massacred By the great grizzly bear For he has his scrumptious feast My life no more My purpose complete For all my failures Feed the world
But then I discretely whisper In to the ears of fate There is so so much more Than just me What about ME and me And me and me As a thousand I's collect Within my flashing soul As I feel my heart sparkle and shine As it teams with many glittering Salmon As a giant school gathers
I feel the rush and rush As the many break through The gateways of my heart As I glide on their force For you cannot conquer The many that live in me My heart thrills with its spills As I leap and leap The white water gushes My heart rushes And I sparkle in the sun For I feel so free Letting go into my silver stream For I can almost fly
Living within nature pursuit Sheltered in the salmon stream We can all surf our way UP STREAM
I decided to repost after hopefully improving it a bit