I’ll always remember that cement slide
The one that crested down that mile long hillside.
I remember nothing but fear
In my mind
When I went down that first time.
Everything rushed past me,
My eyes couldn’t keep up
My screams could only follow
All regrets,
Fears,
And inhibitions was left at the
Top of that slide
My mother,
Crying on her phone,
My older brother,
Struggling with school,
My own social anxieties,
Were all left behind
Leaving me to me,
To just be a kid once more,
Where the playgrounds were castles,
The slabs of cardboard were racecars,
And the monkey bars existed over
Bottomless pits.
