Strong hands

Gifted hands

Burdened hands

Lost hands

Worried hands

Busy hands

Pus-strewn hands

With wilted scars

(Shinning palms)

Warped expressions

(Youthful airs)

Blistered members

(Smooth fragments)

Hands of dirt,

Long suffering,

Shattered idleness,

Tattered fingers,

Bruised flesh,

Sore knuckles

See these hands

Broken and busted and old

What story do they tell?

The survival of the bold