Keith Smith's "Man On The Move" after Sharon McCullough

Keith Smith is photographed reading his poem beside the sculpture that inspired his work at Caldwell Arts Council on June 9, 2018. 

MAN ON THE MOVE (in theory)

by Keith Smith

After Man on the Move by Sharon McCullough

My mind is all awhirl with thoughts of places I could go

But my feet are stuck in stone and they always tell me “no”

Yet I stand upright and hopeful with my legs e’er at the ready

If my body is set free, then I know that I’ll be steady

My arms they stretch to balance if I ever start to move

I want to start my journey so my stature can improve

You can see that I am hopeful with my head in jaunty tilt

But conformity of wiring’s wrapped around it like a quilt

But the thing that I remember most is mind over matter

Even with a frozen body, my brain goes pitter patter

If we can free the cage of limits from our prisoned minds

We can truly move ahead and leave the fixed past behind.