what is up there

and we have a thing for things like running and skiing and swimming and swings

i think it's because they bring us as close as we can get to flying

and we want to run faster, push harder, jump bigger, swing higher

but we're always grounded

in thought- to each other- to home-to mother

nature brings us back, gravity grounds us

but in the process we have those moments when we realize "this is what it feels like..."

this is what it feels like to ________ and we make our own blanks.