Golden Hands

 

They called him

for everything he touched

was flooded with the sun –

 

his grandmother’s soup

by the grace of his hand

tasted of angels,

 

every game he played

he won, every race,

 

everywhere he swum,

he came in first, He

 

Who Is the Origin,

who needs to prove

 

nothing, He whose

long, slender fingers

glow with the Divine

 

and even now, they

burnish and shine

 

as I hold them

o my god I stroke them

in my own.

Jordan Shafer

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