Small Hands

Have you ever met

A person with

Hands so slight

And small,

That when you went

To shake his hand

You shook nothing

At all,

That when he went

To tip his hat

Not a thing

Would move,

And when he tried

To shoo a fly

The fly would look

Confused?

You could say there’s

Nothing good

About so small

A hand.

But when the mayor

Of the town

Came to pick

The man

To take his seat,

He asked for hands

To raise if they

Should want

The spot he held,

You should have seen

A sea of hands

Were shot

Into the air, but

One man with

Too small of hands

To see

Was chosen, for

He did not seem

Overcome

With greed.