Go Ahead and Steal My Shoes

Inspired by Wayne Dyer

Go ahead and steal my shoes. 

It doesn’t matter when you
walk on holy ground. 

Learning what you love,
there is a purpose to get on with.

A knowing that overcomes suffering. 

George Cassidy Payne is a poet from Rochester, NY. His work has been included in such publications as the Hazmat Review, Moria Poetry Journal, Chronogram Journal, Ampersand Literary Review, the Angle at St. John Fisher College, and 3:16 Journal. George’s blogs, essays and letters have appeared in the USA Today, Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, the Havana Times, the South China Morning Post, the Buffalo News, and more. 

See all his poems on Tea House here.


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