It’s hard to know the fate of a fish when it meets a shallow shore, and it’s easy for a wild goose to fall into a foreign land. What does it mean?

“It’s hard for a fish to know its fate when it meets a shallow bank, but it’s easy for a wild goose to fall into a foreign land and its heart will break.” of sorrow. This poem expresses the emotion about the impermanence of life and missing hometown through metaphor.