Once Young

Because we were only ten years old

Those trees were there for climbing.

Yet they did seem awfully tall to us

Though they were not more than twenty feet tall.

I wish you could have been there also.

Then you could have known the thrills

Of swaying to and fro from the highest branch

With the occasional extra special thrill

Of hanging tight with all your might

As the tree broke and fell to the ground below.

Somehow, we were never really hurt.

There was that one tree that touched the sky.

We never climbed it, but we did swing on

The one vine that came down from somewhere high

Because that was such really great fun.

Even now I might try that swing again.

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