The Mind Never Stays Still Poem by Ravinder Kumar Soni

The mind never stays still,
All the time
It wavers between several extremes.
We do not know yet
Why was such a mind gifted to us?
Anything else could do,
A big stone would have sufficed,
It would have anchored us for good,
Not allowed us to wander about,
No thoughts would have bothered us then
Or caused mental unrest,
We could rest at will and taste peace.
Tell me
Big or small a stone is a lifeless object,
It cannot pick itself up
Or remove the dust gathered on it,
It cannot provide a living being
Any comfort because of its inertness,
It cannot share our plight.
Also, stones do not have memories.
Won't we still need our mind
To use the stones.