Question

 Why are honesty and understanding at odds in the world we inhabit?

Darkly, as through a veil

 ....that dead weight of social degradation partially masked...

Simplicity, revealed to be complexity is always something I've appreciated. 

I found myself with Janie Starks

Their eyes were watching Janie, 

as I wish they would watch me. 

I found myself upon her,

alone before the sea. 

I fluttered and I floundered,

but I never set my needs. 

I never set my sail.  

Too modest was my greed.

I distanced the horizon, 

where expectations could not land.

I only wish my heartache.

was not built upon your sand.