"The Sun Behind Your Hands"

by tes

Your hands, like spiders, like mine;

they curl and extract, once and again, and you don't know I'm looking

but I am.


Your hands, like million legs of spindling creature,

so beautiful, I'll never forget it,

my eyes can't stop staring.


I watch,

as the sun through the window lights your fingers through,

and I stare, amazed, oh, just look at you,

as the sun stares with me,

oh if only it could be,

if I could only be with you,

and you with me,

oh god sun, stare, stare with me…

at the sun behind your hands.

© Thor Smith