Pairing with A Pair Of Shoes

 

Pairing with A Pair Of Shoes

P K Routray

 

 

The tales of footwear,

their wounds and woes to tear,

their wells and laughter,

shocks of being the cause of slaughter,

their progress over the years,

their companions and competitors,

how they are hurled at the stage decorated,

how they are used in anger and hatred.

how the person and his house they décor

how they dignify a person by its number,

their dreams and desires as a pair

some of them I vowed today to air

to my dear pair of shoes at dawn

being propelled by their vibration

at times rhyming in sweet silence

at times echoing their presence

while I was in the morning walk

negotiating a stiff forestry hillock

treading the path untrodden

my shoe pair carrying the burden

enduring the pinches and pricks of the path

protecting the foot from the aliens’ wrath.

my constant outdoor partner

in rain, summer, and winter.

The meanest of the men’s wears

though entire day man’s furry it bears

it merits man’s care and appreciation,

Instead on it man looks down upon.

Leaving it at a threshold of the entry door

the other wears go to bedroom drawer.

Footwear makes its wearer fit and smart

beautifying its feet where sneaky scans start.

Gaze we the beauty at her feet but not at her face

gazing at a dame’s face is taken as a disgrace.

The footwear is selected with meticulous care

as among wears for a man’s grace it has a unique share.

Eulogize we must the love between the shoe pair

perish one with pain with other’s pyre.

They come together and together they move

perishing together, their divine love they prove.

When one is sick and is under treatments

abstaining from the job near it the other laments.

Bare-bodied man first put his foot under cover

as for food many thorny paths they had to cover

Thus oldest garment to a man is his pair of shoes

altering over the years its size, shape, texture and hues.

Sins a man with shoes on and them as his weapon

but leaves it forlorn when he goes to pray for Heaven. .

The inert pair of shoes teaches the man in its way

that this naïve shall take pages to dwell and say.