page_title: Footprints (poem)
section_title: Influence
hierarchical_section_title: Footprints (poem) / Influence
caption_attribution_description: English: The original work that inspired this version came to me when I was about to embark on a mission for my church. I wished to comfort my mother. Little did I know that I would be struck by illness on that mission and would need the comfort my own artwork could provide.
context_page_description: "Footprints," also known as "Footprints in the Sand," is a popular allegorical religious poem. It describes a person who sees two pairs of footprints in the sand, one of which belonged to God and another to him or herself. At some points the two pairs of footprints dwindle to one; it is explained that this is where God carried the protagonist.
context_section_description: In 1983, Cristy Lane released country gospel version of the song called "Footprints in the Sand". The song peaked at No. 64 on the Billboard Country chart and No. 30 on the U.S. Christian chart.
  The 1983 television movie Choices of the Heart closes with lead character Jean Donovan reciting a condensed version of Powers/Carty.
  In 1984, Ken Brown published a version of the poem in rhyme and rhythm as opposed to the more commonly known free form versions popular today.
  In 1994, English singer Chris de Burgh included a summary of the poem as the fourth stanza in his song "Snows of New York" in the album This Way Up: In my dream we walked, you and I to the shore / Leaving footprints by the sea / And when there was just one set of prints in the sand / That was when you carried me.
  Per Magnusson, David Kreuger, Richard Page, and Simon Cowell wrote a song based on the poem, called "Footprints in the Sand", which was recorded by Leona Lewis. It appears on Lewis's debut album Spirit. Another song inspired by the poem called "Footprints" was recorded by Dancehall/Reggae group T.O.K.
  The poem is parodied in the Half Man Half Biscuit song "Footprints", off the 1993 album This Leaden Pall. In the song, the Lord explains the fact that there is only one set of footprints this way: "During your times of trial and suffering, when you see only one set of footprints, that must have been when I was appearing on . . . Junior Kick Start!"
  The poem was also the inspiration and chorus for the G-Unit song "Footprints", from their 2003 debut album "Beg For Mercy". 
  The poem was used in the memorial service for Air France Flight 447 on 3 June 2009.
  In 2016, a larger-than-life sculpture inspired by the poem was installed at Pippen Memorial Park in Carthage, Texas.
caption: An artistic rendering of the scene the poetry inspires
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