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Hands

July 7, 2022
By taliablack BRONZE, Oak Park, Illinois
taliablack BRONZE, Oak Park, Illinois
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Favorite Quote:
“We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.” - Erich Maria Remarque


Eve after eve, ever after ever,

I spilled my gilded urn of trust into the withered and leathery hands of the Torah,

My shiny youthful naivety is a thing of pleasure for the ancient entity.

He greedily drinks and drinks, like he’s been parched for years, until.

Until I begin to really look at the wrinkled hands that have no face,

No mouth or eyes.

Humanity is a ghostly soul, its only purpose being to bring otherwise useless, heavy flesh to life.

And the eye is a window into that very wraith, you can see its silver form, lingering in the absence of the pupil’s light.

So how does one affirm a faceless being? 

One who can only prove any kind of mortality with the thousand wrinkles on the palm, the blister on the knuckle? 

You can’t, and yet you still give.



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Afra ELITE said...
on Jul. 9 2022 at 3:12 am
Afra ELITE, Kandy, Other
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"A writer must never be short of ideas."<br /> -Gabriel Agreste- (Fictional character- Miraculous)

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