whenever i read my poems, i have to move my hands,

this i find quite funny, yet i do not understand,

it's as if in some way they are linked together,

done it since i started, think i wil do it forever.

is it because i feel like my point needs emphasis,

and by seeing me move my hands it makes it hard to miss,

is it because i feel it keeps people a little entertained,

maybe because i go for it and dont feel at all restrained.

i've tried keeping them still but when i start they go,

as if they are dancing to my poetry's rhythm and its flow,

now i'm not all that bothered, in fact it's kinda sweet,

how the movement of my hands seems to compliment my beat,

like people nodding their head, or maybe tapping their feet.

the funniest thing about it is i do it all the time,

when i have a conversation, that isn't spoken in rhyme.

i hope people don't get distracted from what i have to say,

but i seem to go off the point, when dead still my hands stay,

like i get lost for words if you can imagine that to be true,

but i just think it's easier to keep me going on through,

so i won't try and stop it, well at least not quite yet,

and when you see me do it, now hopefully you wont forget.

The hand movements are essential, almost like the air,

and if it seems to put you off, well, i cant help you there,

because it's not something i think about, nothing i'd planned,

just a simple movement, an emphasis of emotion from either hand,

and i seem to do it more, with each new poem it gets a little worse,

all it is, is my hands cheering me on to finish each new verse.

so, if you can try not to get distracted even if you find it strange,

I'll make a promise now, that my hand's movements will never change.