Soles

This one is weird. I'll share it now and fix it later.

Not too many old ones

would haughtily refuse

to go out of the house

with these peculiar shoes.

You see, they make the wearer

seem to not stand as high.

They are magic shoes

that allude the unknowing eye.  

The old ones still persevere,

for what do they care,

about a perceived false shortness

from the shoes that they wear?

These shoes perform their function,

just like all the rest.

They'll cover up their old feet

and take them on a quest.

But, the young ones,

they won't protect their soles.

They won't wear these magic shoes,

for they must play their roles.

How could they be seen

for something they are not?

They need those inches in the eyes

of those who write the plot.