how easy

easily manipulated

how easy

how easy 

to think of one's uniqueness 

justifying it as fact

the comparison we engage 

is self-serving 

giving to understanding not

only a diversion

 a misdirection 

 that we refuse to take 

full notice

one can rationalize 

we ponder only to confuse 

the path we choose 

too much thought

 in self-defeating gesture

we fail to see 

we are but 

complicatedly simple.

Reviews

[Kay Salisu Titilola]

Amazing inscription here, Keth.
Life is simply simple.
We are just a sort of making it too complicated by ourselves.
* That is why a poor man would sleep having nothing to fear knowing that one day he would die while a wealthy remain unrest trying to pile up riches that he'll soon leave behind.
*Most of the time we think we are progressing, we are actually creating more problems by trying to change what are not meant to be changed.
God has created everything beautifully, why do we enjoy torturing ourselves?

Keep up the good write, poet.

[keith]

here i did it again! wonder if i do this for a reason or just dont think?
why do we enjoy torturing ourselves?
martyrdom? guilt? cause we can?
i am always at my best when there is less
keep your pencil dry my friend

[jacob erin-cilberto]

and complicatedly merely because we make it so....
confusion is a cover up for us looking at ourselves for who we really are.
if only we could see and accept.
j.

[keith]

i am one ... complicatedly simple (organized chaos)
i can spot an amateur from a mile awayread morei am one ... complicatedly simple (organized chaos)
i can spot an amateur from a mile away
simple is certainly easier
there are certainly many that don't see
sometimes i wonder about myself
thanks

[Coyote Poetry]

I agree Keith.
"we fail to see
we are but
complicatedly simple"
We are more the same than different. Thank you for sharing the amazing poetry and your thoughts.
Coyote

[keith]

same but different costume
come by anytime

[Cherrie Palmer]

Great closing line
I watch a new generation twist the simplest things into a complex layering of 'what ifs'.
KISS will never fail.
Just keep it simple.

[keith]

i really don't like the word IF

[Cherrie Palmer]

Yes it can make a person miserable for no reason.