Ultimate Connectivity:
swimming with the fishes
Janet Kuypers
10/9/16
Already in my wet suit,
I sat in the back seat of a car,
itching to get into the water.
The water at this bay in Oahu
was amazingly blue,
and all I wanted
was to get into that water
and swim with the fishes.
And as soon as we got there,
they warned me not to cross
that coral reef in the water
where the currents could take
me out too far into the deep.
So I nodded my head
and went straight to the shore,
and not too far in
I swam to a school
of bright blue dinner plate sized
fish with bright yellow fins.
And so I followed the fish,
and after the fact
they told me
that the first thing I did
when I got in that water
was that I swam right past
that coral reef in the water.
Oh, I’m sorry, I was just
swimming with the fishes,
and on this day
the current didn’t take me away...
Because the only thing
that would take me away
was not the current,
but the vibrant fish
that let me share
their space with them.
I wasn’t there
to invade their space,
I was just there to swim
with beautiful creatures
and commune
in a part of the world
so few people could ever
have the change to enjoy.
So yeah,
I’ll cross that line,
I’ll do it again,
just to swim with the fishes
and connect with any life form
I could possibly find.
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