Monday, March 2, 2009

Poetry Break: Opportunity Knocks

[In disaster there is often opportunity - hideously disguised, true, but opportunity nonetheless]

When Opportunity Knocks
You should listen

Not hide in the closet, or
Run for your life

Not imagine the worst, and
Fear disaster and strife

When Opportunity Knocks
You should listen with care

Listen with ears, with eyes, 
Even with hair!

Listen with everything you've got
Listen like there's no tomorrow

'Cause if you miss the knock, knock,
Knocking at your door

If you wail with dread
If you fall on the floor and cover your head

If you hide and miss this knock at your door,

Opportunity might not come back - 
and Knock, anymore!

[Of course the trick is knowing whether what's knocking is Opportunity or The Wuggly Ump]

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