Sometimes humans are defined as tool-using animals. Tools can say a lot. What if the tool is the one using the human?
A tool such as a hammer or screw driver; has a job. To either pound in a nail, or something like it, or to take a screw out of something. A tool cannot do this without the helping hands of a human. Now since a human needs the tool to say drive the nail in the board that will soon become their home. That makes the human need the tool more than the tool needs the human. If you look at it in the sense that, the human is building the home and needing the tool, to fulfill the tools needs and job.
The tool lies on the work bench hours on end. Sun up and sun down, possibly not being moved from its grease stained spot for days. It needs to be worked, it senses it's need for use and is waiting for the warm hand to make use of it's powers. To have dings and scratches, to have grease and dirt; is what the tool strives for. To be used not to lay alone. To be hung with pride on the wall of a mans garage; as a trophy. We may sit there showing nothing but we say more than you think as we rest on your benches.
A tool with dings and scratches says a lot. A ding on a hammer shows severe use. It shows that maybe it was one of the main tools needed to build the garage it now rests in. Now a days a nail gun is used to build a home and it too needs the home or garage to get its power so it too can come alive and be used. Human's may be number 1 but now a human can't do hardly anything without the use of a tool. Unlike barbaric men, they used anything they could find and made something into a tool. We are a family. Whether we are a stick made sharp, or whether we are made from a factory; we are all family. A tool, can say more than you think.
This one... Not easy but I took a swing at it??
Nice swing! That hammer of yours hits the nail of the writing squarely on its teensy writing head and drives it home. I kept waiting for you to push it one step too far, but you never cross the line and get goofy with the topic. Instead of letting the material spread out, which a desperate writer would do,. you keep digging deeper into your idea and the deeper you go, the better! That deepening of the material forces a reader to imagine what else the tool might be a metaphor for, but that's on the reader, as it should be, and that's the territory I was impressed that you didn't stray into.
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