Shoes And Soul

Shoes on the rack

I wish to make amends

By changing size

She holds me back 

With whip in hand

Poised to strike

The lashings whine

I try in vain

To stifle the cries

Shoes on the rack

Tell me why

I can't tread beyond

The limits drawn

By that number on the sole

Are  my feet to be defined?

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Mother And Child

I have nurtured hatred
unendingly so................
bags full of trash
valueless to the world
priceless to me
as all other worthless thoughts
churned and cherished
within the fragile membranes
                  of a puerile mind
now appear to have lost their shine
in the blinding glitter
of mushrooming malls

I have parented dreams
wailing in the womb
of silenced nights
throttled sobs
and muffled cries

I have sung lullabies
to sooth them to sleep
and woken them up
at the wrong time
fed them what
money could not buy
nourished them well
so that they  not die
an untimely death
schooled them to believe
they have been immortalized

Yes, I have mothered dreams
but never a child...