This Poem was Submitted By: Len Fouty On Date: 1999-09-18 00:00:00 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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The old swing

I laugh, look! Its still there! The burly rope in the big old tree. My heart skips a beat when I see it still there from when I was just three. The siding is falling from the old empty house the shutters creak out notes off key. The old house is weathered and falling but the rope…its still there in the tree! I reach out and I gently caress it.  My face lights up with a smile. I remember this coarse twisted texture and my mind takes me back for a while. I recall the day daddy hung it. At least, I think that I do… He climbed so far out on the limb and secured it there with a bow. A little board-seat was fixed in place. He made sure that it tested true. He supposed that if it held all his weight, it would surely hold little me too. Ah, the grand flightful feeling of swooping and soaring with ease "Higher, daddy, push me higher," I called as I flew on daddy’s trapeze.  I wonder if it will still hold me after these many, many years, so, carefully I lower myself onto the seat and my eyes well up with tears. Daddy’s not here to push me now but I suppose that is okay. Sitting here on his swing I remember and thank him in whispers today. Slowly I draw back and I let go. The feeling is just like before! Higher, I pump and go higher as my body and spirit both soar. I suppose that I really look silly, but you know, I really don’t care. After so many years with my feet on the ground, It’s past time I returned to the air.  

Copyright © September 1999 Len Fouty

Additional Notes:
From: <trav_ler_98@yahoo.com> Date: Monday, September
, 1999 5:11 AM Name = Len Fouty


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