something smells fishy...

no, get your head out of the gutter.... i will work on this some more, its not quite right.

he threw me back

even though he was starving,

and it was his last lure.

i dont understand

human beings sometimes,

with their values that have

nothing to do with survival.

i was glad, of course,

not to be suffocated,

gutted, and cooked.

but that was yesterday,

and im still stuck

wondering how that old man,

who i will never see again,

is going to feed himself.

my enemy lets me go

and so i care about him?

ok, so maybe now i get it,

but who gave that man

a second chance?

Reviews

[Larry Dyson]

hmmm ok emotions expressed ..worldly but esoteric ..where and why..?why not jump in and assume the man died after the fish lives...kinda like a vegitarian refusing to eat meat fish flesh...,,even though he will die?but then why was he fishing? think outside the box..?

[MusicMartyrs]

it sounds right to me. :) you take a simple thing like throwing back a fish and expand on it and change the perspective so that it makes you think.
very inventive.