Empty-Handed

• Artist: SunshineChristy
• Description: Copyright Christina Trouten ((that's me))
  
  That's about it. Poem ought to speak for itself, don't you think? <3
• Date: 08/04/2017
• Tags: emptyhanded reformedemokid disappointment love imissyou

I recognize your hands
The way the ridges between
wrists and fingers
spread like schoolyard rumors
Your knuckles are bruised and dirt-stained
Never ink-stained
Palms dry and calloused from the
Dutifully answered call of a
“real man’s work”
The only softness to you
lies between your fingerprints
Last time I saw you
you ran them across my jaw bone
and whispered a somber apology
in an alien voice