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Touching Points

By Heather Hancock
July 4, 2022
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Painted walls 
along sterile halls,
echo with the sighs 
and loud, piercing cries, 
of souls trapped in 
weak fragility-
web-like crevasses 
and lines etched deeply
into paper-thin, 
translucent skin.

Memories 
behind plexiglass,
encapsulate lives 
into touching points 
along a timeline-
though tears pool behind 
clouded eyes reliving 
each vivid moment 
as though it was,
only yesterday.

Gnarled, blue-veined 
hands reach out to hold 
onto those long gone,
echoes of an era 
where their minds linger-
with time fading as 
sands inside each one's
hourglass falls til, 
the final grain has
landed quietly.

Amid this 
melancholic haze, 
music sets toes a
tapping, hands clapping,
voices singing loud- 
bingo games filled with
sporadic laughter, 
as crinkled eyes 
twinkle embracing 
every second.

Wisdom shines  
her glory within
their joy, drowning out
the ringing call bells
and incessant yells-
bittersweet moments,
etched in my mind as
I'm sent home to start,
a brand new chapter.
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Heather Hancock

Heather Hancock has been writing her entire life. She's currently a Writer for Coffee House Writers, with short stories, serial stories, and poems published on the website. She is also an Editor, and a Ghostwriter. In December 2020, she had 3 poems and 2 short stories published in The Coffee House Writer's Anthologies. In February 2021 her nonfiction article was published in The Survivor Memoirs: Childhood Sexual Abuse. Heather is an Amazon Best Selling Co-author in the Called To Intercede Anthologies - Volume 1 (January 2022) & Volume 7 (February 2022). She's getting ready to release her first Contemporary Christian fiction novel, Sister Lost, on Feb 1, 2023. Heather lives with her husband and cat, Willow, in a small town in southwestern Saskatchewan, Canada.

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2 comments

  1. Jill Yoder 4 July, 2022 at 16:48 Reply

    Beautifully profound. You have such an excellent way with words. You’re a true wordsmith.

    • Heather 5 July, 2022 at 09:57 Reply

      Thank you so much! 😊

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