Sideways playground

Happiness has
a lot of sideways and upside-down aspects
backwards, too. Kids know this,
but for adults it's too hard.
The dignity aspect

tricky to fake past a certain
age. So they give up. Abandon

their swingsets
in a launched arc off the highest point,
too grown now, too heavy for the landing

it hurts when you come down

and blame your abandon
say you displayed too much of it,
but maybe really too little. The merry
-go-round becomes a metaphor getting
nowhere, the fun it was forgotten,

the seesaw

becomes another metaphor, this time
in an Aerosmith song for feet flying up
in the air, sex everywhere
in a playground

I hope to god

not during school hours
real mature

some people never grow up,
others do it wrong. But

happiness will never be perfect
with practice. Only play

You don't have to know the song.