A poem about the different meanings of swinging, the restrictions on how we see the world because of who we are, and some personal reflective feelings based on those types of "swinging".
Some things
you look at two ways.
Some things
look different to
two
people.
Swinging.
To someone in love,
swinging is
the swaying of a suspended bench
through the spring air
with flower pastels adorning the bright green landscape
below a clear blue sky.
To someone heartbroken,
swinging is
the afterthought of a noose,
the swaying of a hanging body
punished for a crime
that body did not commit.
The minuscule motion after the trapdoor
FALLS
and the rope
constricts your neck.
What is life but perspective?
Seeing through different lenses-
Feeling another grasp.
Another texture.
Feeling tears where some feel none.
The human condition is our difference.
Different eyes.
Different colors.
Different.
Lives.
Those colorblind will never see
what I see.
They will know no different.
But
wait.
Maybe I am colorblind and they are not?
I will never know.
And why ask?
Why ask for purpose?
Why?
If I even receive an answer,
it will surely be
that
the purpose of life is
to ask what the purpose of life is.
Living in this web of confusion.
I am swinging.
On a playground swing.
Asking these immortal questions.
I am swinging.
A pocket-watch in front of your eyes.
Playing with your brain.
I am swinging.
From jungle vines.
Taking in the beauty.
I am swinging.
On a suspended bench.
Breathing happiness.
I am swinging.
From a cold noose.
From a rough noose.
From a tight noose.
From a metaphorical noose.
A symbolic noose.
A terrible noose.
A deathly noose.
I am swinging.
From a fateful noose.
With no answers.
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