metaphors
your shoes were always perfectly clean.
if you saw them at night they may as well have been shining like the moon itself.
now they are in a constant state of disrepair.
you dont really mind.
maybe, you think, that means something
but youve never been good with metaphores
you were born on the day that the doctor said you should be
brought into the world on another mans terms
but the original date didnt suit your parents needs
so it was pushed back a month.
maybe, you think, that means something
but youve never been good with metaphors
the hair salon you used to go to as a kid
closed down and was replaced by a funeral service
the mint tiled floors and dye-filled window sill
the friendly dog greeting you at the door
gone as if they were never there in the first place
maybe, you think, that means something
but youve never been good with metaphors
the worn down shoes have been replaced
a different colour yet still the same make.
youll still keep the old ones, you decide
although they are in a constant state of disrepair.
drawn on and slowly wearing down.
you still don’t really mind.
maybe, you think, that means something
but youve never been good with metaphors.