Swimming Up Stream

A Poem

By Amanda Wells Venegas

All my life

I’ll be swimming up stream

I’ll be swimming up stream 

It seems

When It’s bad 

I’ll be swimming up stream

I’ll be swimming up stream

Just to stay where I am 

When it’s good 

I’ll be swimming up stream

I’ll be swimming up stream

To plow ahead

All my life

If I didn’t have these weights

If I didn’t have these weights

Tied to my ankles

All my life

I’d be flying through the sky

I’d be flying through the sky

Not swimming

And when I die
And I go up to the sky
And I go up to the sky
Then I will be forever free