Holding on to the the chains of the swing that I’m on,

Pushing myself forward, I am closer to the sun,

And the moon,

And the stars

That day at school,

Right before our old dog died

This one girl and I soared through the sky

Then we came back down to earth,

With our feet inside our sneakers which we rested in the dirt

That night at our friends’ house,

Friends so close we called them family

We jumped from the swings and took off running,

Chasing after bugs that dodged our small dirty hands

All those days spent

At our old neighborhood playgrounds

All those great memories have begun to blur into one

But I’ll never forget the stars, or the moon,

Or my closeness with the sun