Painstakingly Simple Is The Answer Poem by Sarah Mkhonza

When that one spoonful you are not supposed
To put into your mouth gets lifted, just say
No and put it down.

When that one order on the checkout list gets
Where the budget does not say you should go, get
The right picture of what happens. You are going
Beyond the beyond into debt territory, the big hole
Where it will be hard to turn back.

When that smoochy feeling that is not wisely guided
Comes and caresses your soul, you know it is wrong
Just say, the one two letter word that howls in the
Wind and is mostly unheeded.

When the result will be chickens coming home to roost
It is better to stop them from leaving and cut out the
Beaks and strip them of wings for the shame one will see
When they are done roosting.

We learn to be told that to do is simply to do
But to do wisely, at the right time, in the right way
Is left an untold story that slips through the fingers and
Each one of us has to figure it out for themselves, in
This world where the word discipline became complicated
A long time ago.

It is painstakingly complicated, this living of life
In simple ways, where we indulge ourselves of all that
Is called experience and not choose the things important
And potent with future blessings from portions of a size
Of mouth bites and speeches of grace that shape many.Why
So painstakingly simple truths elude us is a mystery
That is always revealed at the bottom of the hole we dig
Daily and fall into with our eyes open.