Old Shoe

Remember how back in the day
when we were young and less frugal with our money
we’d fall in love with a pair of shoes, outfit suit, tie, or toy
whatever that thing was for you...
the kind of absolutely darling thing
you know you’d likely only use
once or twice a year?
 
And how, every so often you’d take them out,
adore them, lament not having the right outfit, purse
or event to match them with?
 
And back they would go,
into the furthest corner of the closet
until life made you forget
until years later, you happen across the once shiny,
silky, smart outfit, accessory or toy
stained, torn, faded, moth eaten and rotten
 in the back of your closet?
 
Yeah,
I don’t want to be that to you.