Personal Poem

caressing grasping slipping gripping
shaking flailing flicking
picking pointing slapping
trapping waving wiping holding hands

joints and ligaments
muscles and tendons
working moving building
blood flowing to outer finger tips
heart pumping breathing assisting

hands make you smile
encourage you to run the sweaty mile
a hand is like the crystallized sugar
lollipop you get at the
end of a doctor's appointment

a life preserver in life's raging storm
a holder of hidden sweet secrets
your accomplices in crime

caressing grasping slipping gripping
shaking flailing flicking
picking pointing slapping
trapping waving wiping holding hands