Shoes

Shoes

Remember those steel toe caps you
Gave me? Red leather with a metal
Cap on top

They were a size to big
So I had to wear extra socks
When walking in them I could feel
The water and sloppy mud
Knees deep in trenches

Spade heaving and digger grabbing
I could smell your pipe in the laces
From tobacco stained fingers
The only time I have ever been
Able to walk in your shoes
That college period between 96 and 99