My Stubbornness Poem by Henry Tong

I wrote this poem when invited to preface our school's yearly magazine. I was thinking what mentality was needed to profoundly change the school for the better, as the long established "school institution" had been criticized recently. In a way, we humans are just alike: we are on the verge of Data Tech and Artificial Intelligence, and whether we decide to "creep our feet onto that new land" is still in hot debate.
In this poem I used extended metaphor: the struggle of fish whether to get out of the water and disembark on new land is especially painful, accompanied by "self-isolation" of other mundane fish. However, once it was determined to step a way further, there a brand new world and many friends, whom it never expected, awaited.
I am more defined as an "experimentor" both in social science research and creative writing. I was given the opportunity to bring something new "on the verge" with unique type of thinking- probably one of the reasons why I love social science. I hope through this poem my friends could understand why this pushing-to-edge stubbornness means a lot to me.