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I Envy Her Hands

May 21, 2012
By MilesC SILVER, A Small Town, Pennsylvania
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MilesC SILVER, A Small Town, Pennsylvania
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Favorite Quote:
"Life is a system of balance. One thing will always be accompanied by a proportionate level of its counterpart. Happiness is more valuable when interrupted by periods of sadness." ~Bruce Stonemills

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Things are precise.
Things are exact.
Things are definite.

From the direction she walks
to the words she chooses to write.

If she is going in the wrong direction
she turns around.

If she doesn't like the words she wrote,
she erases them and writes new ones.

I envy her stability.

I envy her security.

I envy her hands,
whose grip around the neck of life

is so much tighter than mine.

© Abby O., Marblehead, MA

The author's comments:
Which of these two people are you? Are you the girl, or the narrator?
Are you both?
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