Building A Puzzle

Building a Puzzle

Wrapping some mystery in an indirect clue
Is the kind of activity I like to do.
Or prying some out of the shells in which they hid
Has filled many hours long past since I was a kid.

To roil creative juices through little grey cells,
To make the connection and to ring mental bells,
To unjumble the mumble in patterns of sense,
These often give me pleasures both mild and intense.

So do I make too complex that which is easy,
Adding extra unneeded layers to please me?
Never a simple question that you can pose
That I will not mine for more details to expose?

I protest against the obvious that any can see,
Insist more's needed for understanding to be.
The "ah buts" and "what ifs" to consider also
That pushes to never-ending the final sayso.