Life as a Little Boy’s Sock

At first everything is dark. Suddenly it feels as if the whole world is rumbling and moving. And there he is, his big round face staring down at me. I am ripped out of the comfort of my home and freinds, and quickly moved through the huge halls of an incomprehensively large building.

This is how every day goes.

He yells as he carries me through this large structure, “Mommy, mommy! Help me put my socks on!”

The other one always replies, “sure honey, in just a minute.”

He runs to the larger one swinging me around mercilessly, and hitting me against every surface he passes.

The other one grabs me, and this is the part that I have been dreading this whole time. She jams the little one’s limb inside of me. I feel all stretched out, its so uncomfortable.

I see that she puts one of my friends on his other limb, I pray that my comrade has not had the same dreadful experience as me this whole time.

Suddenly a case is slipped on over me, and the world is once again dark.

It has been only darkness for so long now, though it was not the same comforting darkness of my home, it was hot and it felt like something heavy was sliding around on top of me the whole time.

I can tell that everything is moving, though I don’t know how much or where to. I know nothing of what exists beyond this darkness that has trapped me. I sometimes wonder if that might be for the better.

Until the movement stopped, and the wait was lifted off me. The case keeping me in darkness was removed and I could see a long room with many doors.

All of a sudden I am peeled off the little ones limb and cast aside, as if I were worthless.

I am left on the floor for many hours. They walk past me again and again, but never seem to notice I am there. I begin to wonder if I have been permanently forgotten. Maybe I don’t exist at all

But eventually the larger one sees me. She always shouts “Justin, you have to put your socks away when you get home!” She then folds me up neatly, adn I am carried back through the large structure, and placed back in my home.

The world becomes darkness once again.