i+laced+my+shoes+with+sorrow

In this poem, shoes personify the narrator's feelings. When he says, "i laced my shoes with sorrow and walked a weary road", he means that he decided to be sad. He ententionilly decided on focusing on the sad things, which people often do in life, and i have done. From experience this grumpy attitude makes it very hard for people to talk to me or try to comfort me, making me very unproductive. I think that the reason Saul Williams chose shoes to personify feelings is because shoes carry the whole weight of a person just like feelings carry, decide, and depend on the actions of a person. So if one wears sadness in his shoes his weight and actions will respond acccordingly.

Wow - great idea about the shoes carrying the weight of someone, both physical and emotional weight. Excellent observation. Also, I just love the imagery of lacing shoes with sorrow and walking a weary road; the alliteration moves the reader very smoothly through those lines. Good job making a personal connection to the poem.