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Rated: E · Poetry · Emotional · #939718
I visited a place of old pain. It still hurt. A metaphor.
Seeking something lost
I slipped them on-
Walking worn,
Scarred and scuffed,
Leather shaped by long embrace
Of weary feet.
I wish that I could keep them on,
But some flaws
Time cannot erase.

They still hurt.

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