The Shoe: Waiting For A Train Poem by John Rauchert

One lone left shoe abandoned on the train platform
Precariously perched on the yellow warning line
As if its owner in a mad dash to catch a departing carriage
Was caught on the other side of a closing door
Wistfully looking back at the retreating footwear
Perhaps his left foot was behaving sinisterly
And in order to punish it he kicked off the shoe
Admonishing his foot with 'Now see how you fair! '
A shoe being only a shoe has no such thought or feeling
For its plight lying exposed haphazardly on the platform
Will the owner feel for his loss or will he limp home
Satisfied that all is right and for the best
The next day the left shoe was gone
And a right shoe stood in its place
I really don't know what is going on