there is this hook, line and <br />sinker <br /> <br />someone is a fish and he <br />is caught <br /> <br />the urchins and clams <br />and octopuses watch helplessly <br /> <br />the fish is this philosophy of <br />being caught and wanting to be free <br /> <br />you are inside this ocean and <br />you are this fish <br /> <br />and then you wish to become a man <br />all your life you feel the fish in there <br />hook, line and sinker <br /> <br />the fish in you and the man within <br />in constant struggle<br /><br />RIC S. BASTASA<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/in-constant-struggle/