Once upon a time there was a fish

Once upon a time there was the beginning of a fairy tale,
and a fish, which swam in the prehistorical stream of age-old times.
This fish was the only one of its kind,
who has something completely strange,
more in itself.
One day it expressed it,
and it was the first word, which was ever spoken.
"Dear water. I thank you so much, I could not exist without you,
and I had used you without asking you ever."
"who matters" the water rushed in its participateless kind.
"I do not have a heart,to facilitate yours".
Since that time creatures swim in water,
run on the ground, and fly in the air
and do not know whom to thanks ,
or whom they owe
anything.

Bernward Frank