Still works
POV: you wear the sneakers until they're actually done and they tell the whole story
Still works
Still works
The lines
You wear the sneakers until they're actually done, and by then they tell the whole story.
There's the crease across the toe from every walk home, folded in a thousand times.
There's the scuff on the side from that one trip you'd forgotten about until you looked down.
A new pair would know none of it. They'd be beautiful and completely blank.