come here - go away

This learning to crawl business has you in a bit of a dilemma little HK - you want nothing more than to wriggle away from me and practice practice practice - then you get suck or hurt yourself and demand to know why I wasn't right there.  So I guess it's begun already ... the push me pull me of parenthood....

Once there was a little bunny who wanted to run away.
So he said to his mother, "I am running away."

"If you run away," said his mother, "I will run after you."

For you are my little bunny."

"If you run after me," said the little bunny,"

"I will become a fish in a trout stream

and I will swim away from you."

"If you become a fish in a trout stream," said his mother,

"I will become a fisherman and I will fish for you."

"If you become a fisherman," said the little bunny,

"I will become a rock on the mountain, high above you."

"If you become a rock on the mountain high above me,"

said his mother, "I will be a mountain climber,

and I will climb to where you are."

"If you become a mountain climber,"

said the little bunny,

"I will be a crocus in a hidden garden."

"If you become a crocus in a hidden garden,"

said his mother, "I will be a gardener. And I will find you."

"If you are a gardener and find me,"

said the little bunny, "I will be a bird

and fly away from you."

"If you become a bird and fly away from me,"

said his mother, "I will be a tree that you come home to."

"If you become a tree," said the little bunny,

"I will become a little sailboat,

and I will sail away from you."

"If you become a sailboat and sail away from me,"

said his mother, "I will become the wind

and blow you where I want you to go."

"If you become the wind and blow me," said the little bunny,

"I will join a circus and fly away on a flying trapeze."

"If you fly on a flying trapeze," said his mother,

"I will be a tightrope walker,

and I will walk across the air to you."

"If you become a tightrope walker and walk across the air,"

said the bunny, "I will become a little boy

and run into a house."

"If you become a little boy and run into a house,"

said the mother bunny, "I will become your mother

and catch you in my arms and hug you.

"Shucks,"said the little bunny, "I might just as well

stay where I am and be your little bunny."

And so he did.

"Have a carrot," said the mother bunny.

Excerpt from The Runaway Bunny by M W Brown