Allusion

Getting to the point is sometimes

Not an easy trick.

Circling around a subject

Often spoils the hunt.

Hoping that your subject will

At some point get the gist,

And politely take you off the baited hook

Of being blunt.

There are times when vague illusion

Simply cannot do the job.

Like when someone dies

And you're left to reflect.

From day of birth we're taught

To beat around the bush of truth

And be anything in life except direct.

It doesn't make a lot of sense.

It doesn't ring quite true.

Allusion pays no recompense

When truth is overdue.

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