#swingset
The swing is just as endless
As the sky which looms above
Cloudless and empty, alone and friendless
The kind of beauty people dream of
If she kicked so hard, she touched the sun
But, never fear, she didn't burn
The chains brought her down to the earth so fast
Then one more push, to the sky she returned
Her imagination soared with the birds
Soul superior to land and sea
On the swing she could be anything
On the swing the girl was free
Mar 10
Mar 10, 2026 at 10:19 PM UTC
When I'm upset about something, I walk
I'll walk a mile or two until I find a swing set
There's a swing set in my backyard- but being that close to everything is not what I want
I want to be where I normally wouldn't be
Some place where people will not know me, and in Utah if you go a mile you're in a whole new area with hundreds of new faces
It didn't occur to me why I always wound up on a swing set, my initial intent was to only walk
Today I realized it
When you feel so weighed down by your worries and troubles, nothing feels better than that split second of weightlessness at the peak of each swing
In that moment nothing else matters
You can look up at the sky and know that you're not alone, nor are your burdens always as heavy as they were in the moments before
Mar 9, 2016
Mar 9, 2016 at 11:12 PM UTC