The Hamlet Project

There’s something so much more precise about this command –
More precise than “get your hands off me” even, because
If you HOLD your hands off,
You will not quickly seize me again.
I picture Marcellus and Horatio
With hands held inches away from Hamlet, almost frozen there
As if time has stopped and they are compelled to remain there,
Waiting to grab him
But held with hands off.