The Moving Train Of Thought Poem by RIC BASTASA

people are busy
untangling knots
thinking about how
much time to spend
and money to waste
on setting themselves
free from what binds
their hands

is there a need i ask?
what makes you free is
ultimately the mind

even if you have untangled
the knot
or one by one destroy the
link of one chain to another

if the mind is stuck
like a fly to a sticky trap
the wings still cannot fly

there are no forests
no trees
to a moving train