A Mile in Your Shoes

This poem is about viewing perspectives from every angle and not just one's own. It's also about showing compassion towards others' situations and hard times.

To walk a mile in your shoes--

what shoe size do you wear? 

Figuratively, it's unimportant

as long as we share perspectives, even for one mile. 

To walk a mile in your shoes--

would my feet hurt later

from carrying all your burdens

complete with emotions you bear? 

To walk a mile in your shoes--

would I trip on your life's challenges

that you avoid each passing day

with these same sized 8 1/2 sneakers? 

To walk a mile in your shoes--

I can't begin to fathom or empathize

why you hide pain in your eyes

as you venture off each morning. 

So I can't walk a mile in your shoes--

not literally or figuratively.

But if we walk and chat a mile,

then maybe we could try. 

Reviews

[Sukriti Suki]

I liked this. I found deep meaning in many of your lines...It is very difficult, rather impossible, to be in somebody else's shoes. I like how you wrote this. Nice.