I Could Have Embraced Simplicity & Candidness Poem by RIC BASTASA

how i want
to embrace simplicity

how i want to
throw away generalities

i wish i can be specific
like a hammer to a nail

or my fingers to my hand
whom am i clapping

what i idea i detest
what movement i follow

but i am afraid to hurt
you &
myself

i therefore now talk like
you

in words veiled
in the content of
vagueness

clouds are beautiful too
and haze can be thought provoking

and murky waters
hide the fish

that we all want to catch
and then eat.