Shed My Childhood is a photograph by Guy Ricketts which was uploaded on February 25th, 2013.
Title
Shed My Childhood
Artist
Guy Ricketts
Medium
Photograph
Description
"The Swing Set"
Wood rots,
ropes fray,
metal rusts
memories stay.
It stands there
deserted in the midst
of many times climbed
and swung from.
Sometimes it was a ship
escaping from the storm.
Other times, many times,
it was the convertible a friend and I
drove to McDonald’s.
Now years of playing cease.
It’s just the goal for flashlight tag,
where people sulk after losing
or
preen after winning.
At times I want to shed
my childhood,
but somehow I can’t cart it away
to the dump, where
swing sets are shredded, where
times past
can’t ever
return.
~ Grace Walton
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February 25th, 2013
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