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Shoelaces

May 15, 2017
By devils_advocate PLATINUM, Spring, Texas
devils_advocate PLATINUM, Spring, Texas
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Favorite Quote:
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.<br /> -Haruki Murakami


We fly by the seat of our pants,
Take to the air like birds,
Airborne,
Air burns on our faces
Hot summer
Hot day
Hot dog

Cold air.

We see cities we are not a part of,
We laugh at the little people with the
Shoelaces,
Untied
Slowing down to tie,
But we have none.
We have wings.
They don’t slow us down.

Walking in their worn-out, rot-out, cut-out paper people,
They have three things we don’t have:
1. Order
2. Society
and
3. Shoelaces.

Flying by the seat of our pants, our laughter echoes above the clouds.
We have three things they don’t have:
1. Color
2. Love
and
3. Wings.

Worn-out, rot-out, cut-out paper people please other paper people.
We are not worn-out, rot-out, cut-out paper people.
We are flying by the seat of our pants,
Flying with our wax wings,
Daedalus made one mistake:
Worn-out, rot-out, cut-out paper wings, they don’t fly.
You have to believe they will fly.
Then they will fly.

Flying by the seat of our pants,
Take to the air like birds,
Airborne,
Air burns on our faces
Hot summer,
Hot day,

Cold
Air.


The author's comments:

I wrote this to symbolize life, because there two kinds of people: the "worn-out, rot-out, cut-out paper people;" the normal ones. The shoelaces represent their normal, everyday lives, and the way they are slowed down by reality.

The wings represent the dreamers, the ones who see life from a different perspecive, hence the "flying by the seat of our pants." Dreamers are up in the air, the "cold air" symbolizes the challenges they have to face while the "hot summer, hot day" is going on beneath them. 

The "normal" ones are the ones who have society on their side, but they also have shoelaces to slow them down.

The dreamers have true love, they have color (the life beyond reality) and wings.


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on May. 19 2017 at 9:22 am
WolfWhisperer0911 BRONZE, Austin, Texas
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@devils_advocate Wow, awesome job!