wooden shoes
Words flow out of my mouth like clunky wooden shoes at a fancy dress ball. I hide them under the skirt of my upper lip, rendering them invisible to all but those who can see through silence to my uncouth footwear.
“Why are you talking to her, she’s only a clog!”, they whisper.
The fashion conscious fear my presence; the quiet stillness of my unseen shoes leans heavily on their glass slipper chatter, becomes an ominous crack of dread in their idyllic world of shoe design interaction.
The not knowingness of my unspoken footwear creates a miasma in their minds. My mysterious intentions careen out of control like a pair of three inch spikes on a perforated metal staircase.
Suddenly I am a pair of smelly old gym sneakers, soles flapping as I shuffle past them, plastic bags brimming with poorly designed loafers and flip flops; a used footwear salesman, a spoken word terrorist – the non verbal communicator.
Without warning, a black hole appears in the dance floor, sucking all of their oral footwear into its vortex; screams turn to gasps, shock at suddenly finding their feet stark naked, like, like - cavemen!
A huge vacuum of silence descends. People scramble for writing instruments, but after a while, with no words to defend themselves, to intervene with the process of mating, people begin to dance, to touch, to listen with their senses.
Gestures flow like fine wine into cups of understanding, eyes flirt with actions, and kissing becomes all the rage.
I smile as I depart.
My work here is done.
above images all pixabay creative commons
Excellent use of language to convey a feeling. Impressed!
lol ty. just messing about. an older piece.
I am floored by your imagery and how your leverage the metaphorical being of shoes. stunning.
I really like how you turned the pair of shoes into a living being and wrote from its perspective. This was quite creative! Where did you get the inspiration to write a post like this?
it's my long held perspective on footwear, having grown up in a fashion conscious place where what you wore was more important than who you were. i was often looked at askance because my family could not afford things like new shoes and cool clothes. my answer is that if they took their shoes off they wouldn't be so uptight.
Oooooh, I see! That's really cool that you were able to take an experience like that and turn it into this creative story with that meaningful lesson :)
How deep and insightful. Well done and expressed.
ty :)
You write so beautifully. Unique choice of muses. It's an interesting analogy. You can have different shoes, but in all of them is the same sole ( bad pun, sorry ). Also fancy shoes don't mean you can run any faster. Loved the tapestry your words wove. Thanks for sharing!
thanks! i try to make things interesting. it's not much, but its what i do.
Nice Post :)
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I love the anthropomorphism, or maybe it's the other way around but I guess what I'm trying to say is that you did a good job expressing feeling and ideas using this!
I like it :)
I found you through a round up.
Enjoyed your metaphor.