Reiki
my hands are
like a glacier,
powerful like the
force of nature
when they’re close
to heat, they melt
then, they’ll become
colder than ice has felt
when you’re next to me,
my hands are swollen
my palms sweat up
like they’re molten
and when I’m too
anxious to speak,
my hands will freeze
up and become weak
almost like they're trying to
find the calm after a storm,
when I was younger,
I felt like there were
needles in my fingers
like prickling thorns
and when the doctor
drew a sample of DNA,
my hands curled
like an archway
the pulse in my fingers
throbbed like a bass drum
I couldn’t move any
part of my body,
not even
my thumb
and I went back
to the day when
I was told that I
had healing hands
and if you give your
warmth generously,
another soul
will understand
because when you
caress a broken heart,
all the chaos
turns into art
- Leah Rae