NaPoWriMo 4/19/09

Looking Back

swinging faster
swinging higher
a five-year-old’s
tunnel vision
seeing the world
as adventure and fun
living in the moment
totally
fully
completely
no thought for the future
or consequences

top of the arc
seeing the playground
spread out before me
release and fly off
out through the air
totally free
joy and adrenaline
rush through me body
taking me higher
than the arc of my flight

ground comes up quickly
and I rush to meet it
hitting it hard
losing my breath
as it gets knocked out
of my body
I lay there a minute
gasping and puffing
then rush back to the swing
to do it again

forty years later
I look at the swings
I remember and wish
I were that brave again


©2009-Art Belliveau