I'm not sure about the first two verses, but the last one sounds like a spawning salmon to me. They instinctively return to the stream where they were born, after years of wandering the ocean, only to literally rot (losing beautiful scales) as they spawn and die.
I'm not sure about the first two verses, but the last one sounds like a spawning salmon to me. They instinctively return to the stream where they were born, after years of wandering the ocean, only to literally rot (losing beautiful scales) as they spawn and die.