--- title: Fishing for a dream date: 2008-04-25T10:49:09Z modified: 2008-04-25T10:49:09Z permalink: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/fishing-for-a-dream/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 188 categories: - Life Poems featured_image: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/fishingforadream.jpg" author: Praveen Kumar timestamp: 2008-04-25T10:49:09Z tags: - Life Poems --- ![fishingforadream](http://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/fishingforadream.jpg) i got lost in a world that was moving at bottleneck speeds (free) time is unheard of love was measured in green (currencies) emotions were all just a scribble on the seashore one after another – no reason, no rhyme staring out from my island i feel helpless and so out of tune no one helps you when you fall this whole world [fishing](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/fishing-for-a-dream-part-2.md) from the same hole fishing rods big and small everyone was trying to “catch” the same fish everyone was thinking only about the same “moby dick” while the whole world is searching for moby dick i [go away](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/dont-go-away.md) to find some place new Somewhere we can be ourselves Some of the time with the [moonlight](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/moonlight-passion.md) behind me in the middle of all commotion far away from land even further away from this “contest” i sit on a small island devoid of all things insane i throw the bait and start fishing for a [dream](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/its-just-like-a-dream.md) ———————————————————————————————————– note: this is the first of a two-part series. according to dictionary.com, dreams is defined as \# A wild fancy or [hope](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/do-you-still-have-hope.md). \# A condition or achievement that is longed for;