Don't Let Your Brain Stop

This is the first poem of a trilogy about how ideas move through us.
First, the mind refuses to stop.
Then the words demand to be caught.
And finally, silence asks us to stay and listen.
Three moments of the same creative breath...

Picture from StockCake

Don’t let your brain stop
mid-spark, mid-wonder, mid-why,
let it keep running barefoot through ideas
like a kid who forgot the time

Don’t let your brain stop
when a sentence trips and laughs at itself,
when a thought is messy and unfinished
and still brave enough to exist

Let it hum, let it wander,
let it doodle in the margins of the day,
connecting stars that were never meant
to be a constellation

Don’t let your brain stop
at the first wrong turn—
that’s usually where the interesting stuff lives,

behind the door that creaks instead of opens

Keep going, even quietly,
even sideways, even unsure,
because motion isn’t always loud
and thinking isn’t always neat

Don’t let your brain stop
just because the world blinks,
keep the light on inside,
and see what shows up next.