Working Hands

 

You can tell a man’s worth

Not by the change in his pocket

But by the skin on his hands

And the lines in his face

 

Men who can save for the future

Hire hard-handed men

To do their labor as they

Move numbers across a desk

 

Men with leathery worn fingers

Broad and hard at the edges

From digging and pounding have

Hands immune to the world

 

These hands of working men

Work for money to

Buy the blue sailboat

Pay the lumberyard debt

 

For a man’s worth must be

Gathered and displayed

Shown off to each other

To be acknowledged

 

TobeTT  # 13