by Ninian Williams

Created on: April 23, 2008

on swimming in positively middle age

depths sometimes are difficult
to fathom. We try our best,
to take a plunge when the water
is dicey or uncertain.

there is always the exhilaration
and the bubbles
and the sense of abandonment in
accomplishment,
just in being able to get wet
somehow and forgetting
fear and knowing we will
eventually be forced to
reveal what we are wearing
regardless of our figures
and how the years' tolls roll
or the stomach looks
bloated and such.

but, the water forgives us
and if we are truly
free we forgive the fact
that no swimsuit
becomes us as much
as what we saw
in the magazine
and how we were to
rise against the current
even in the community pool.

There is a freedom longing
to be set free. And every
sensation of our childhood
returns when we venture
in.

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