10 Pairs of Shoes
First steps quiet and hesitant
Something left undisclosed
She wanted an answer
When I had the question
Down the cement sidewalk
Down towards the zoo
Jokes were stale
But they still existed
Marathoner and sprinter
Relationship distant and fast
A final step forward
Another step into the past
Future roommates
Reading the Sunday news
Drinking smoothies
Jimmy John subs
A shell of a soul
Shell-shocked and worn
A bunny, true friend
Bouncing around
Mind and direction
Too nippy to walk
In a green and blue bikini
White bottom too revealing
Washing her Rabbit
With my own hose
Star trekked phone
Hale bop shroud
Last steps quick and clunky
Nothing left to hide
Not a word spoken
Dodging the hedge leaves
Horrid look upon her face
Asking to stay and explain
But I see her driving away
No more walking
No more talking
10 pairs of her shoes in the attic
With very little soul
10 pairs of her shoes
With no walking left to do
I'm using each and every one
To get me to where I've got to get
Haunted steps no room for regret
Now I've found her again
Electronically after death and birth
Anger is all that remains
I was there whenever asked
But where were you
When a lone smile would have made
All the distant difference between
A gasp and a sob
Bleeding words can't be shared
Happens every day and night
Beginning and end
In more words than one
Just hurts the worst
With someone who was a friend
The intricate echoes linger
Intimate downward spiral
And no one knows
Where I got my last pair of shoes
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