NotSmoak

two hands,
          	both calloused--
          	from wiping tears
          	from holding cold hands
          	from pulling at hair in frustration
          	from crumpling poems never sent--
          	reach out,
          	and the callouses shed.

NotSmoak

when you are thirty,
          you believe that
          all that matters is
          digits and taxes and power, but
          
          when you are eighty,
          on a hospital
          bed with computers
          going buzzbuzzbuzz
          around you, 
          does any of it matter?
          
          when cold, frail hand on
          a rosy cheek of 
          your daughter,
          does any of it matter?

NotSmoak

@NotSmoak how is this angst
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