“A Stroy In Every Hand”

Your hands will tell the story
of what your life has been.
The length and look of someones nails
and the texture of their skin.

Some cracked and dried like kindling
some smooth as a newborn babies butt.
Knuckles crippled, in twisted pain
As if the other things weren’t enough.

All are open books of history
taken the viewers eye to that life and time.
To look deeply at your hands
and stare deeply into their lines.

Our hands are our life’s mirrored images
of all the life that we have lived.
The closed ones paled and withered
the open ones dried out from what they did give.

Linda Winchell
Copyright:2009