Just Go For It

Astra was a tuna fish

 Who liked to swim at speed

The other fishes  laughed and said,

 “There really  is no need.

Don’t make a fuss and swim like us “

But Astra took no heed.

Tuna swim fantastically

 At speeds that would amaze

And Astra laughed while leaping through

The massive foam topped waves

Playing in the sea and feeling free

And thinking in new ways

“Why bother,” scorned the other fish,

 “Leaping for the sky?”

“Your jumping gets you nowhere,

 Because fish like us can’t fly. “

“I don’t just feed, my mind is freed

We don’t know where our futures lie.”

The nets they came from nowhere,

It seemed they just appeared.

Just go For It she told herself

That net it can be cleared

And so she leapt whilst others wept

She leapt both nets and fishing boat

And sang her freedom song

She turned and saw the other fish

So sad they’d not live long

So come on fishes, be ambitious

Being different isn’t wrong.