Higher Than You Should

Hi, my name is Rooie,
and I don’t always stay where I’m supposed to.
Especially not here.

The park isn’t for sitting.
It’s for climbing higher than you should,
balancing longer than you planned,
and almost falling — but not really.

My friends are everywhere at once —
up there, over here, already ahead of me.

Someone says, be careful.
Someone laughs.

I go anyway.

Because that’s the thing about us —
we don’t really stop at the ground.

And once you start climbing —
there’s always something higher.