My Shoe Story- from WOS

Today, I am hosting#FWF writing prompt over on Kellie Elmores website. I brought my shoe book along to help inspire. I thought I would keep going and add mine her.

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To Dance in Heels
I joke I found my feminine side at the age of thirty. I began learning how to put on make-up, and get all dolled up for an evening. In no time at all, I came to realize I loved shoes, especially the feeling of dancing in heels. Some people might have thought I drank some funky drink or motherhood had put a spell on me transforming the woman they knew suddenly overnight. A woman they last remembered as a shoeless, nonchalant dresser strolling up to them outside the coffee house wearing Nine West pumps, a pretty dress, and a splash of lipstick. I believe it was simply my time to bloom.

I had three years of enjoying the feeling of walking down the street wearing heels before my life dramatically changed physically. I reached a point with my disease and I became disabled from the progression of Multiple Sclerosis. My balance and leg strength had worsened and I had to start walking with a cane. Wearing heels occasionally turned into a pleasure of my past and a goal to be reached with patience and hard work. Once, I told my physical therapist that wearing heels is one of my personal goals. She looked at me shaking her head not agreeing with my choice at all. I keep that goal to myself now and I tell her my other goal of dancing.

Surviving the Halls of Life

I.

Her eyes tell the story
words can only say halfway,
a decision she made
swayed by pressures to be
similar in body and mind.

A life changing choice
rooted beyond her age
of thirteen,
wrapped up in the skin
she was born to wear.

A truth of reality buried
deep in the psyche of man
the bullies of history
now watch the oppressed
turn home and oppress
the different of their own.

II.

They say children mimic
the worlds they create
from the adults they watch
explaining the groupings
found in schools.

III.

a distant chatter wanes
in the empty hall
as the last footsteps fade

multitudes of mismatched
sized girls and boys
vanish behind closed doors

remnants of teen life
circle the hall
thick with the pressure
to be beyond thirteen

girls grown in body
still babies in mind
bat eyes
at boys half their size

IV.

Cruising the halls
in groups
along a lateral line.
to the drama of song

dividing by terms
of unwritten law
exaggerating the reality
outside the front door

the popular enforce
societal pressures to be
expecting
others to follow their rule

Except the geeks known
through time and those
that rebel as I
against the norm,
the expectations to conform
they now call them drugies

still many are found
outside the circles
fending for themselves.

V.

A part of life that hurts
no matter how old you are
it sucks to be outside
the group you believe is yours
or lost to where you belong.

We all want our niche that fits
a way to survive
the halls of junior high,
a way to explain
our behaviors from days gone by

as they step through life
decisions then mean nothing now.

©River Urke 2013
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