PRUDENCE

By nature or nurture, be cautious or reckless.
By system or chance, accept or refute.
By method or madness, press on or hold back.
By all means, do what works best for you.

We all have the option whether or not to:

Read instructions and follow directions.

• Fall into eyes as languid as pools.
• Sink sublimely subject to suggestion.
• Look before leaping into a toolbox.
• Lacerate once after measuring twice.

Make your list as long as you need to. But,
as an example, that’s enough for you to see.

As an apprentice masters a process,
advancing, processing, in orderly fashion,
be careful, keep watching where you are going
when closing your eyes, proceeding inside.