Shoes

First find out about introspective.

shoes

try before buy

but I disapprove

because shoes wear out

shoes to last a lifetime

but a pair will not last

without treating it like a last

any thought of forfeit

is to end the walk before it began

and so any amount of trialling

is futile

people are abandoned, betrayed,

worn out

some shattered after fragile age

some broken in bold primes

some deflowered before tender youth

all robbed of a glorious heritage

now spattered with shadows

over skin and sole

the earthly mud of mankind

that defiled

a shoe

The Imagery

Shoe shop.
Walking a pair of shoes.
Muddy shoes.

The Content

This is one of my early entries, probably my second. I am digging this out now to complement my current mood.

What do I know about marriage, or relationships even? True, what do I know? But divorce rates are higher than ever, and all this freedom and adolescent experience has done nothing to improve. Rather, what it seems to do is teach us to flee from commitment. While divorce may be the smarter choice in some cases, a smart choice certainly was not made in the beginning.

A common approach to establishing relationships is to try it. Dive straight in. To bed. Maybe not as immediately as I have exaggerated, but it does happen a lot. Supposedly relationships are a trial and error thing that needs to be tested, but are people not more than shoes? People do get hurt from the end of an intimacy. It is like applying superglue between two people and tearing them apart, and each person dies a little more..