[comfortable shoe]
 
knees under chin
trembling lower lip
arms around pale, bare legs

head down
thinking thoughts
best left unheeded
hair disheveled
lackluster
listless
 
eyes red and puffy
from a salty flood
not yet spent
shoulders sagging
under burden of emotion
hitherto unshed
 
memories flitter
fading to umbra
a world of gray
 
the window curtains float
in a gentle wind
spring breeze
cooling molten, woebegone flesh

a new day is born
but all she wants
is her comfortable shoe