wait

i worry sometimes
what language to use in what
i want to write
to expose an injustice or to
state the true color of man

some people will be hurt
and there will be a chase of one violence
to another
even to some extent a virulence
that can go viral
like a spiral staircase
going to a dark chamber of
the hearts of
men

to kill and be killed because of words

to avoid this
i am tempted to exercise extreme caution
invoking
rhetoric, or even scattered metaphors
which can only be understood by the
few
who too are writers
grouped into a certain category of our own level

not the target

i want something plain now, words that can easily
trigger an understanding of what i really mean

something that calls a spade a spade
and many will be hurt but now
being ready for the kill and the whatever

i am now ready to write it.
wait.