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Touching Points

By Heather Hancock
July 4, 2022
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Older and younger hands reach to touch a red flower
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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 working on the final edits for her first Contemporary Christian fiction novel, which will be published in 2022, date TBA. 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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