"Miles To Go Before I Sleep..." *

"Miles To Go Before I Sleep..."  *

Within our homes,

within our hearts - lives...

we keep a place for footwear.

Shoes - pride-full, leathers soft and glow-warm

  life-aged, time - worn
  buffed to glisten
  chafed with the touch of existence

  soles marred as our souls are borne.

Sandals - to fit the work or talk

  cushions to bear the effort of our walk
  gnarled by stones, pavement, burdens, tomes.

Slippers - for being home

  special softnesses for the moments when
  we pause in our living, our being whom we must.

and then the boots - for some they are work boots
for some - Combat Boots

for some they are all the same words

Combat - work - helping - living - dying ...being.

Walking in our shoes

we are fishers-of-men
and children of the lesser God
whose words we wish we kept

...within.

Chris

 

*  The title of this is the last line from Robert Frost's "Stopping By The Woods On A Snowy Evening" .

 

 

Author's Note

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Reviews

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I am sooo glad I stopped by :) I have a smile in my heart now...thank you!!!

[Eve]

we also have the nurse white shoes of the care givers, the rich leather of the pompous, the whispering soles of piety until we walk a mile in every shoe I suppose we should not judge. Beautiful Chris!