Original ‘Praying Hands’ Painting by Rosa Niehaus © 1960’s
African Hands
I saw a picture the other day
of two hands clasped in prayer.
The story they told was the truth
about an old man from his youth.
The lines of worry were all there
with the happiness, love and despair.
With the death he had seen
of the friends that had been…
Showing the scars of war,
all the fights from before.
When he looks at his hands, does he see
how his future’s going to be?
A struggle before he dies?–
We should all have eternal lives!
He knows death must be near,
I wonder if he has any fear?
Frances Macaulay Forde @ 1973
The painting proudly on show in our lounge in Kitwe, Zambia, for many years.
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