my black suede flats - 11.09.24

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my suede flats came to me 
at the most fortunate time
i wore them when you visited me on a Sunday
black skirt, black shirt, black shoes
you in your white uniform
breaking my solitude

i bragged about how cheap they were
a friend who had the same pair
said i was lucky
i believed her
but my suede flats had quite the journey ahead

i drowned them in muddy puddles
two rainstorms in a row
once in Aizawl, once in Delhi
how they survived, I've yet to know

they came to me
so sweet and cheap
and i planned to take care of them like my baby
but unfortunate unplanned calamities
took my baby away from me

suede soaked, broken and bruised
yet they carried me undefeated
toes spilling at the seams yet never breaking
it stretched till the last mile
and got me home
safe and sound

my black suede flats outside my flat
deemed too dirty to enter
deemed too cheap to survive
if there is another rainstorm yet
ill take them out
to be sure to survive.

~ ៷

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