Saturday, May 14, 2011

See My Hands

See my hands age, see them
pucker, pinch, decay

shedding endless cells with every
dying day, heading to the
heart of death like
April marching to May

See my hands thin, see their
skin wrap a little looser round the
bone, they're being worn in

you see, my hands
are not my own

2 comments:

Harriet Gregory said...

This is stunning.

Thomas the Obscure said...

You have what were once my hands in applaud at this!