Abandoned Sneakers

ABANDONED SNEAKERS IN THE STREETS As we walked watchfully along the way, a pair of sneakers lay silently in the streets; abandoned by flight or neglect. Their soles have lost their occupant: gone to who knows where. We cannot know the life they once shared; for there are no footprints in the asphalt to trace the path of their beginning nor the lonely journey's end; neither is there a catalogue of exciting events experienced. We will never know the lord and master from whom they have been emancipated to be left here only with the odor of memory: an acquired anti-aromatic epitaph. Swiftly strolling silently onward, we pondered the sneakers’ seduced soul---rather than their sole. One day this too, will be the fate of our shoes: abandoned and left only with an acquired anti-aromatic odor of memory.