Gush Gush... The ocean roared...
Hush Hush...My mumma told...
The tides were high..
It was not so pleasant!!! Sigh!!!

I felt the tide go higher..
Taking me away from my dear...
It was all so secure in my family bond...
My mumma my dadda my sister being my ground!!!
Now I have been thrown to a shore by this tide...where I am left with no one around...

My mumma must be in tears ..
She is my love...she knows my fears...
In a no man's land yet a man made dungeon...
I feel so lonely... why did this ruthless tide didn't carry me with them and left abandoned...

I had my dreams I had my world...
I would enjoy crawling on the little slippery rocks with my sister watching the flying bird...
A little dream of mine to see the see new shore..
I travelled to reach and make my own core...

A new shore...a new rock..sailing through tides...
Like a shell, like a blob fish, I also had a bumpy ride...
I fought I conquered I made a little home on the rocks...
Starved for days...kept head high even when the ocean froze to ice and nights filled with fogs...

I wasn't the exquisite oyster...nor the fierce shark...
I was neither the glow fish who shines in the dark...
I was a hidden 'Pearl' in an oyster shell...
My passion to achieve made me pass through multiple tunnels...

Soon this journey became a colourful one.. when a lot of zoea hatches joined me...they my sunshine and I became their sun

I call them my 'extended' family because they love me like their own...
Even though I'm pushed away from them via this tide I know they won't be torn!!!

Strong I am... Stronger I become... every time I think of my journey...
Yes there were rains ..there are more tides..it's been days that it's been sunny!!!

I feel caged like a fish in a fisherman's net today...
But I know I will reach my dear ones coz I'm a god's child and I would never stop halfway...

My loved ones my dear ones will wait for me...
Will pray for me...will love me will care for me...
I know the tide is high and would try to contain me within...
But I won't give up for I'm a little too strong to be broken...with a strong soul within and my shell made of chitin!!!

I will find my way even if in darkest of nights...In painful fights...
You may be a bigger tide trying to destroy my insights...

I will still rise and shine like a sun for I am the truth..I still have hope...
I'm the 'hermits crab' I maybe humble, friendly non aggressive with a capacity to climb a mountain slope!!!

Bring it on its a war now!!!
I will still cross the hurdles to reach my hermitage...
For I'm not stopping as I hear my dearest cheer for me loudest...I will win this battle and be the cause for a 'Change' !!!

I will be the cause for a CHANGE!!!

Love Love
Vpsisthename20 ❤️