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swinging like a swing

if i sway a little more

maybe i can touch the sky

and if i do

i wont come back the same

i will sit on a cloud

like it knows me

like it has been waiting

i will greet birds

not as strangers

but as something i forgot i was

today

gravity can rest

it has been holding too much anyway

let it sleep

i will take every moment

before it slips

before it asks me to be something

if clouds decide to rain

let me fall with it

not as fear

but as a drop

ocean or lake

it does not matter

i just dont want to land

as myself again

i think

the cloud wont feel my weight

because maybe

i was never that heavy

maybe

it was just my thoughts

pretending to be stones

like an alarm

my worries

i will not set them today

no jobs

no commitments

no clock chasing my breath

i am here

just here

with nothing to do

and for once

nothing is waiting for me

not even time

oh swing

if you are still moving

slow down

because i know

this is where it ends

i have to step down

back into a world

that speaks truth

but tastes like lies

a world that wears meaning

but feels empty inside

and maybe

it was never outside

maybe

it was always in here

inside this mind

where i can still

erase everything

come back

sit again

and swing

and soften