TATTOO - by Siobhán Mc Laughlin

TATTOO  by  (c) Siobhán Mc Laughlin  Your love has etched itself in my life like a tattoo I never wanted; pierced my heart in a painful flair of permanence I wasn't ready for. At first it looked like the trembling shadow  leaves cast on sunny ground - arabesque intense truth.  Now, it's a wizened scribble, deep dark scar tissue of how keenly I felt, how deeply I lost. When I love, I feel its needle sting. When I write, I use its ink.