Bare Feet
What we trade for beauty...
My New Series… Micro-Poems #2
Author’s Note
Bare Feet, is all about the exploration of how quietly we trade freedom for comfort, and the weight of knowing we’ve done it. Here, feet are not just about walking but about what we lose when we choose adornment over roaming. A bare foot is vulnerable, but honest. It remembers the earth, the rain, the stone while the other foot, trapped in “pearled bone,” speaks to what we cling to until it clings back. Beads, gems, silk, cages… we think we’re building beauty, but sometimes we’re building prisons.
These words are not a judgment, but a recognition that we all trade something for something else.
The question is, “Do we know what we’re trading?” and once we know, “Do we have the courage to set the pearls down and walk barefoot again?”
There’s something powerful in that moment of recognition, it really can be a threshold, a chance to choose a new way forward. Thank you for putting these feelings into words.
pm, this is very powerful and, of course, moving because of your talent as a poet. A wonderful poem.