Scott Simpson · Poetry

Shoes

Use For Kindling · source pages 36

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Shoes

You cannot wear them,

not really—

those too-small, worn-through

kid-sized shoes

with soles chewed by life.

But you try.

And that trying

is love:

not to own another's pain,

but to honor it—

to walk alongside,

even if your steps

do not match.