Under the Heel of your Leather Boots

Have you seen the ice spreading everywhere?

Under the heel of your leather boots.

It is no longer a skippable puddle of grease, 

like that in your hair,

but a manmade invasion of our traumatized roots.

No, 

you may not go around it,

it is your burden to bear.

For every ice shoot and abrupt, frozen uproot,

the blame is placed on the “wrong” footwear.

And ice is everywhere,

I know you see it

beneath your leather boots.

Check the heel,

and you will find the freshly painted blotches 

of the same crimson red 

running through your veins.

Is that not enough

to fight, and shatter the ice

that is spreading everywhere? 

An epidemic for all to see.

It can’t be skipped until we’re free.