To venture,
forward
#1
The lost playground
of my youth,
Is never gone.
It lingers in my gestures,
excitement’s frozen glance.
The whoosh and swoop
of swing and slide
a cadence upon my
worn out sigh.
I will hold on
and maybe, this cotton-wool world
will grow again,
one day
If luck
and circumstance
collide
as soft surrender,
To envelop me in rose
- by Lydia Jane Bennett
England