Forgotten Beauty

…

Delicate slipper

With your sparkling gems

Sewn upon your golden exterior

…

You were meant

To be worn in the ballroom

Or the palace

Admired by the elite, and

Envied by the rest

Your silk surface shimmering

Your sole unscathed

…

Yet you’ve journeyed

So many miles

On clumsy feet

That loved you so

Because you made them feel beautiful

…

Over long roads

And muddy courses

You’ve trekked

Your luster fading

Your sole battered and torn

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Now your beauty is gone

And with it that love

You’ve been banished

To the depths of the closet

Your gems forgotten

Your soul torn