The importance of hands
Hands reflect the way we are
Summarising the rough ridges of time
Indented on the skin, that have undergone
a series of washing, wiping, and watering.
Dipped, dunked dampened
throughout our lifetime.
Hands are the mirrors into one'self.
Sometimes I wonder
of how Atlas coped
with the weight of the world
cupped in his hunds
trudging the universe
And then I realsie
that hands also conceal
The Id
The Ego
grasped in adoration
in the confines of our coffin box
We go to meet our maker.
About this poem
This poem gives an insight into the importance and purpose of our hands.
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Written on November 10, 2001
Submitted by taminator2016 on January 14, 2023
Modified on March 05, 2023
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| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 485 |
| Words | 91 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 19 |
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