It was time to go.
I was almost ready.
I did not move slow.
I was fast as a jet zooming.

I took a quick bath.
I brushed all my teeth.
I put on my clothes.
And combed my hair neat.

I was going downstairs.
So that I could eat.
But first I had to.
Get shoes for my feet.

I'd wear my new shoes.
All shiny and red;
And sparkly too;
With thin straps of blue.

I looked on my dresser.
I looked on my chair.
I looked in the closet.
The shoes were not there.

Peered under the bed;
And around the floor;
Yet, I could not see
My new shoes anymore.

How could I lose
My beautiful shoes
So shiny and red
And sparkly too?

Then, I heard Mom say,
"Come downstairs.
Your breakfast is ready."
But I didn't care…

'Bout breakfast that is
I needed my shoes
So shiny. So red.
So sparkly too!

Oh where,
Oh where,
Could my little shoes be?
Where could I have left them?
Oh my!
Oh me!

I was taking long now;
No more speedy me.
I was going too slow now;
As slow as could be.

So sad and depressed.
I went down the stairs.
To tell mom my new shoes.
Had vanished some where.

But when I got down there.
My shoes I did see.
At the foot of the staircase.
Just for me.

I was so happy.
I was so relieved.
I grabbed them and kissed them.
And gave them a squeeze.
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