Crystal waters flowing fast <br />Where salmon wait to leap <br />Clear as glass I see the rocks <br />With weeds that sway down deep <br /> <br />The waterfall that blocks their way <br />To where they’re lives begun <br />Seen by their parent’s just last year <br />Now offspring have to run <br /> <br />Streamline bodies eye the falls <br />In foam to wait a time <br />Then each in turn dash forward <br />Before they start to climb <br /> <br />What a task how could it be <br />Up falls of such a length <br />Would all the salmon make the top? <br />That needed super strength <br /> <br />Of course they had no option <br />Life’s passage they are willed <br />Beyond the falls and not before <br />Each salmon’s life’s fulfilled <br /> <br /> <br />© 2008 David Threadgold <br />Rambling Riddles & Rhymes<br /><br />David Threadgold www.davidthreadgold.com<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/5-a-life-fulfilled/
