Holding hands

25/07/2022 Nilson Lattari

Holding hands has many meanings. Normally, when someone is conducting others anywhere. A man and a woman leave the church holding hands. An emotional mother holding hands encourages her son on the first day at school or a worried mother holding hands goes back home with her son after his bad behaviour there.
A young or mature couple holding hands walk in the streets to watch store windows, look for a desk in the cinema or stay on the pavement as if they are alone to enjoy a particular world where their hands know the path.
If one of them isn’t closer to the other, one smiles from afar and his lover tries to guess his thoughts. Maybe they don’t imagine that their intense looks are memories from the known body. And they keep looking at each other because their smiles don’t stop and their illuminated looks wonder what they are thinking or feeling at that moment.
Two kids holding hands go playing and others holding hands go meeting each other to know themselves.
Two people holding hands can talk alone, they can sleep together and they can imagine that they live in their dreams as if the sleep was only a break in their life.
Two people holding hands can enjoy a subject in common. They can use their fingers to point in any direction and their hands look for each other. Hands are magnets that attract, then the world disappears and lovers cannot imagine where they are going. Their hands are alone and they want and feel the feverish love coming from their fingers to fire up their bodies when they connect them. Hands balance in the air when lovers walk like a dance and listen to a song only their ears hear.
Holding hands is a safe place, they are supporting people, and they are a hug waiting for complements. They are expecting the future or they are satisfied with simple things that they did a few times ago.
Holding hands is affection to write letters in the air and nobody can read. They are codes, sweet touches asking for attention or they are passionate words. They can be separated, distant or angry but if they are together there is confidence. They are rings that nobody can break.
For lovers, holding hands is a signal that a kiss is coming.