The Muddy Feet

My feet have walked many roads

The dusty road that leads

To a small town in Panama

And the rocky road in the same town

That leads to the most beautiful river

My eyes have ever seen

My feet have walked into that river,

Carrying a canoe over the shoulders

And then as the water deepens

My feet has jumped into the canoe and rested

These feet has also walked in the city

Over the hard concrete that leads

To so many places

From the canal-zone to the ocean

Back and forth

An these feet have ran in the chaos

Of a war that was not a war

More like an invasion

These feet have danced under the rain

And climbed trees in the jungle

They have chased butterflies

And hummingbirds

And even have landed over a nail

or stabbed by a stingray

Occasionally…

But the most fun these feet

Have ever had, was the times

Running shoeless,

Jumping on the dirty mud

After a rainy day!