And Now The Swing Swings Alone

And now the swing swings alone.

Time flies by, if only I had known.

When did I lose my childhood, I wonder,

Now it scares, not excites, this thunder.

All the little friends I had

Are gone, it’s so sad.

Lonely is now the river bank,

And into it, our naïveté sank.

We used to be so carefree and young,

But by tyrannous time, we have been stung.

Once together, we are all on our own,

And now the swing swings alone.

Pushing and falling and laughing and crying,

Our love for outdoors was undying.

Now only silence echoes out here,

Where did we all disappear?

How was I supposed to know,

How fast we would all grow.

Everyone is in a different time zone,

And now the swing swings alone.

These were the days good and old,

When no one knew what the future foretold.

The skies were blue and the grass greener,

We would be excused for our misdemeanour.

These days are now long gone,

As I reminisce sitting on my front lawn.

We used to play paper, scissor and stone,

And now the swing swings alone.

Nostalgia is a powerful thing,

I still have memories of that spring.

When we gathered on this shore,

And played till our shoes tore.

To go back, is all I want,

Because our childhoods, they haunt.

But all I can do is groan and moan,

And now the swing swings alone.