Wear your tattoos like armour
05 May 2003 @ 12:06 pm

and it was one of the first things i ever
noticed about you
when you first walked into the room
and into my life.
you wore an old old singlet
with your skin
peeping through the holes
and the colours
and semi-hidden designs
caught my eye

and when, that next week
we met again
and took your shirt off
and i saw them all
around your belly
up your back
along your arms
and across your breast
and you, so liberated
so strong
and so full of life,
that i wanted to be near you forever

and now, a year after
a strangers drunken rage
left you broken and dead
on some uncaring pavement
and it all still hurts so much
i find myself thinking
that if only i could wear your tattoos
then they would be my armour
and i could walk into the sunset
unafraid

Copyright, Sabbie of Blather

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