I love this poem.

Leap Before You Look
W. H. Auden
The sense of danger must not disappear
The Way is certainly both short and steep.
However gradual it looks from here
Look if you like, but you will have to leap.

Tough-minded men get mushy in their sleep
And break the by-laws any fool can keep
It is not the convention but the fear
That has a tendency to disappear

The worried efforts of the busy heap,
The dirt, the imprecision, and the beer
Produce a few smart wisecracks every year;
Laugh if you can, but you will have to leap.

The clothes that are considered right to wear
Will not be either sensible or cheap.
So long as we consent to live like sheep
And never mention those who disappear.

Much can be said for social savoir-faire
But to rejoice when no one else is there
Is even harder than it is to weep;
No one is watching but you have to leap

A solitude ten thousand fathoms deep
Sustains the bed on which we lie, my dear
Although I love you, you will have to leap;
Our dream of safety has to disappear.