playground <br />higher and higher <br />the swing squeaking, creaking <br />but firm <br />the child laughing <br />testing the limits of freedom <br />the freedom of limits <br />sensing but forgetting <br />the firm post on which it swings <br />firm as a parent's love <br /> <br />unmoving stillness <br />the child swinging <br />both held in love <br /> <br /> <br />for Skadi meic Beorh<br /><br />Michael Shepherd<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/0120-child-on-a-swing/
