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Hopping on stones over a brook
don’t pause to stare dreamily round.
It’s best to leap before you look.

To make a song up, write a book,
the same holds true, or so I’ve found.
Hopping on stones over a brook

is to mistake what you mistook
before, again, yet still make ground.
It’s best to leap before you look.

To go straight is to be a crook.
Only one outcome for each bound,
hopping on stones across a brook –

to sense the next. There’s no safe nook;
but movement is most sure, most sound.
It’s best to leap before you look.

To celebrate the way you took
a living art is all around.
Hopping on stones over a brook
it’s best to leap before you look.