Learning from a child's swing set......... and the children that once played there.......
It's sitting over there in the side yard rusting away into the ground........ I can see it out of the corner of my eye now......
The word independence comes to mind............ flashing overhead neon...........
The older we get the more we have done for us............... out of necessity............
It is The lose of independence.......... We fear........ we grow feeble..........
We are all keeping out an eye.......... pass the diaper dear......... wipe me honey.........
It is not a very pleasant thought is it?.......... the loss of independence that is............
I guess that is why they call adult diapers 'Depends' for fear of loss of continence........ on this one day you can depend............. like money in the bank.
If you live long enough you turn back into a 'Big Baby' that no one thinks is cute, isn't that wonderful? Goo Goo........ do you get a pacifier?
Lets dwell on the word independence ......... Shall We? On this coming 4 th of July...
Surely we must learn to love or hate one another......... and then in our golden years we loose our minds and reminisce ....... and wet ourselves........ and poo.......... holding jumbo goblets of Red Wine... Swaying under the Tropical Moon light... if we are Lucky... and are we even telling ourselves what was the truth? Probably not............. But.............
We all rode that swing set over there, See it?............ ......... when we were in our miniscule time of our own youth ....... in our hairless pre adolescence time..............
next time you see a swing set........ Hop on and see how you can get.......... try as hard as you can to loop over the top and see if you can remember.
A Child's Swing Set......... and a bag of firecrackers....... in our Youth
