Shoelessness

This poem was sparked by a conversation I had with a fellow classmate. We were talking about a contest for our school literary magazine, Imprints, which has the theme of Daydream. I went on a random bout of talking about weird surrealistic things and poems and stories and basically came up with the idea of feet running away from their owners. After I wrote the poem, I realized that it can be looked at as a metaphorical poem, whether I planned to write it that way or not. But I will not explain the metaphor that I have thought of and instead leave it to the readers interpretation.

Shoelessness

The feet that run through the forest

Come from the roads and the cities

And from the houses in the dark

From their owners who where no shoes