Hello! How are you all? Fantastic, I hope.

Valarie, I tried to find a good fairytale to re-write, and I'm still trying to look, but not having much luck thus far. ,

This prompt was given to me by one of my friends, and it was "Hands".

rough fingers catching on the gentle warmth of human hands
reaching for the safety
that would just as much become the downfall

their meeting was just as much chance as fate
or maybe it was just as much fate as chance
because they had never meant to meet
but what they wanted was
not
what they needed

so the tiny piece of safety
that was held in the hands
refuge against the
oncoming storm
was gratefully taken
as the fate that
brought them together
that would also
tear them apart
was ignored

until the day it
shattered
arms and hands
and bright smiles
that glittered against the dark
like a beacon calling lonely
wanderers home

just as much fate as chance
or maybe it was just as much chance as fate
because what they needed
and what they wanted
were just the same

but the oncoming storm
finally broke
and the safety
was not enough

but in that moment
the moment of
rough fingers catching the gentle warmth
of human hands
in that moment
nothing mattered but
Run.

So, wrote this when I was trying to be productive.
I think it went well.
…Except for the fact that it's not what I mean to be productive on at all.

Got a prompt? Send it my way! :D