Careful net dipping

I went fishing, for you.
Well more net dipping.
Not wanting to upset the balance of nature.
I clumsily caught you, fishing.....
Gently I placed you in my ice cream tub.

I fed you with images,words and honesty.
You ate eagerly, it appeared to please.
I studied what I could see and tried to learn it by heart.

I put the tub in the water,
As I had been taught at home.
So you could swim away freely and unharmed.
I watched you swim
but by surprise, you swam back.

And whilst I smiled the deepest your wish to return,
I did not want to tame you all the same.
You are not mine to keep.
You belong in wider waters.

But my ice-cream tub sits below the surface.
Dear friend, if you are curious, swim by when ever.
I may just, by coincidence, walk past and peer in.