'Footprints In Our Soul' Poem by Whitney Nicole Albright*

Age 10

We all of shoes we try to keep clean
As we walk down the roads of life
Others do not know what our shows mean
For they have not dealt with our strife
We only seem to stare
At what shoes others have on
While we aren't even there
In there shoes alone
There are shoes you see day to day
That aren't even worth the wear
Must we have to compare the pay
Why can't we all just lend another pair
Everyone sees shoes that are worn down
But we don't see the paths they've been
Who has seen their walking grounds
And ditches they've been in?
The people with the worst shoes on their feet
Are the best people in all
For the have had more enemies to defeat
And had more downs and falls
So, next time you come around a bad pair of shoes
That are filthy and have fallen apart
Think of what all they had to lose
And how you don't know their hearts
Though sometimes our shoes get torn
And even sometimes have those old holes
The shoes that we have worn
Leave footprints in our soul