Monday, October 5, 2009

Week 5 poem: Shoes

Shoes

Covering the feet of those big and small,
Creating, changing, destroying the world,
With the plaguing wrath of fashion.
Rise and fall.

Shoes.
An item so simple and common in our country,
But in others,
Children's feet stay battered and scarred.
Their callouses thicker than hides.
No money for footwear, it is all spent on food.

Yet, in our land of abundance,
We can spend more on a pair of shoes,
Than some families will make in a year.

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