Aqua Tears

Aqua Tears
-Me

I know not whence I delved forth
Into my aquabode, nor do I know
The preciseness of my birth-hour.
All my blurred memory shows me
Is my first feeble stroke into water.
Mamma kissed my little cheeks,
Sacked me into the lone cradle
And swam by...
My neo-natal cries reached none
But the Holy Mothers serene.
They fed me, covered me safe and
I slept cozily in their lap, kindly they
Brought me up with like other juveniles.
Who named me Herring, but they?
Loved I life, it was merry and gay.
Loved I my mates, I wasn't the only orphan.
Loved I prayers, for then I talked to my Dad.
Loved I girlhood, mothers said I was pretty.
Loved I everything excepting the thoughts of
The nameless sinews that shared my blood.
Smooth were my days in the divine Haven,
Till time let me know I've grown big-
Big enough to think wide and wild,
Big enough to risk my tenderness,
Big enough to let the ugly Ginglys peep
Through my lone but gladsome glides.
My fins wear out fast in my struggles
But I wish not to give in.
No. I dare not give in. Sadly
I watch the narrow line that's between
Giving in and giving out.
Thanks Dad, you've left me with a bit
Something worthy to give and use-
If filial threads not any-,
Indeed the oil is slimy.
But the line is very narrow, Dad!
There I struggle-
Wriggle, wriggle and wriggle
Along that very narrow line,
My war-glides will go on guess
Until the Ultimate sigh,
I swim on,
Touched but untouched.

HELP:
1. Herring is an oily fish of the genus Clupea found in the shallow, temperate waters of the North Pacific and the North Atlantic oceans, including the Baltic Sea. Predator fishes like whales, sharks, ginglys, etc feed on them. It is an important economic fish.
2.Gingly is a nurse shark (Ginglymostoma Cirratum), which lives on the bottom around reefs and in bays and lagoons. It eats small fish and crustaceans.