Yesterday I was walking home and I saw a lion sock lying on the sidewalk. It wasn't a lion's sock, but a tattered little thing with the embroidered design of a lion. A child's sock.
A lone sock, a lone child's sock, a lost sock. Or maybe it wasn't lost, but forgotten on purpose. However, something tells me it was not left there intentionally. Maybe a young couple was carrying their small boy up the hill and it slipped off. Maybe the baby boy even noticed it drop, and maybe he even tried to tell his parents, but they were too busy talking or huffing or maybe they just didn't understand. Sometimes babies talk and no one listens or no one knows how to listen. It is also possible even the owner of the sock did not notice its absence right away.
I guess there is the chance that the sock was discarded on purpose. I don't know why someone would discard one sock and not the other, but who am I to think I need all of the answers? I don't know, but maybe someone else does. The sock was left for someone to find, but then in all of that waiting to be found, it attracted grime and debris and became ugly, forgotten looking.
A dirty, pathetic sock, shoved to the side with no one to claim it.