Stinky Feet

However mean your life is, meet it and live it. - Thoreau

in his fine, italian, leather shoes

he sidesteps a homeless man sitting on the sidewalk

the one sporting dirty, torn sneakers

he never could have imagined that one day

the shoe would be on the other foot

hard put

turns out

they both had holes in their souls

despite switching roles

Author's Note

"As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness." - Thoreau

Reviews

[barleygirl]

I love this statement, clanging clear as a bell. As the masses & media foment over all the bad stuff that's come to pass (in the past year especially), I keep thinking: the only way people learn is by feeling the pain. As yet, it appears the corrupt conglomerate won't be feeling any & consequently I expect we won't ever stray far from the swamp. You do a great job of bouncing words like sole/soul (((HUGS))) Fondly, Margie

[Paul Bell]

I think in this pandemic, jobs going, mental health going through the roof, and what follows after it.
Who could have foreseen this. Something tells me the streets will be full of souls without a sole to walk on.

[Pete]

who'd have thought. we should never become to comfortable or complacent. life has a way of shaking things up. i hope the vaccine puts a lid on it and things can slowly start returning to "normal". we just never know, do we ... :)

[Paul Bell]

Yeah, hoping around June
time things should be better. Probably shouldn't have said that mind you.