My Welcomed Shoe Bite|Poem

Stalling in a broken relationship is like

Walking in the favourite shoe 
I have outgrown.

For a while it seems to fit,

Almost reassuringly.

Then the discomfort grows,

Each step worse than the last.

I feel I’d collapse any minute

yet I keep walking in it.

In the twirl of pain, my toes go numb,

And my body adapts.

Slowly, 
I talk myself into accustoming the pain,

Mistaking it for affection.

And then, 
I keep walking in the favourite shoe

I have long outgrown.

I keep mistaking the pain for love.

I keep walking in it.

About the author:

Yuimi Vashum is an upcoming writer, a blogger and an educator. At present, she a guest faculty at Mass Communication in North East Christian University, Dimapur, Nagaland.