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Topic: Favoritism (02/28/05)
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TITLE: BIG FOOT (a lesson for the young at heart!) | Previous Challenge Entry
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ADD TO MY FAVORITES
This foot is twice the normal size, outside a bootie’s range.’
The right foot is a perfect size, a much better sight to see,
It’s toes are tiny and so sweet, but this left foot’s an odd rarity.”
I spent my childhood squashed and squeezed in one shoe after another,
Right Foot teased me and often said, “They like me, more than you, Big Brother”
I decided one day to run away, to find a place to stay,
Where nobody had a favorite foot, and where I could be happy all day.
But everyone laughed when they saw me run. They’d not seen a sight so funny
As a foot so different from other feet. A man even offered me money,
To join the circus so people could stare and be glad that they weren’t like me,
But I kept on running as fast as I could, ‘cos accepted I wanted to be.
But the stones so sharp spiked and cut my foot, till it felt so tender and sore
I knew I’d have to find a shoe, so I went in search of a store.
‘I want a shoe to fit my foot,’ I said to the man who was serving.
He blinked his eyes and shook his head. You could tell he found me unnerving.
But he went to the basement and brought back a shoe, the biggest he had in the store
The shoe had a fit when it looked at me, it’d never seen my size before.
I tried to stuff my toes inside. I pushed and shoved and wiggled,
While all around the other shoes all boo-ed or rudely giggled!
‘You’ll never fit inside of me,’ the shoe cried in distain
‘A foot like you would better be a boat, or truck, or train!’
I would have hung my head in shame, but I’m a foot, you see.
A foot has toes and heel and sole, but a head’s no part of me.
And so I shuffled out the door, as shoeless as I came.
If I can’t get a shoe, I thought, I soon will turn quite lame.
It was cold outside and I cried a’while, then decided to go back home.
Though Right Foot is the favourite, at least I’d not be alone.
But as I stood on our door mat, I couldn’t help but wonder,
When they opened the door and found me there, would they smile, or look like thunder!
At last the door swung open wide, and Right Foot down the stairs came tumbling.
His smile was so wide and full of joy, his words came out all mumbling.
“Big Foot, I’m so glad you’ve come back home. Without you I’ve not been complete.
I’ve hopped and jumped, and tried to do things, but they can only be done with two feet.
We need each other, though different we are, and I have learned to be a lot wiser.
There’s no favorites when two together do work, with each complementing the other.”
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