By Laurel Ahlfeld
Date: 2003 Dec 02
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Tattooed

You are the artist
inking my heart
in its most vulnerable place

First piercing flesh
as needles jab deep
seemingly endless pain

And I will leave
having paid the price
of letting you begin

I'll bandage the wound
and treat it with care
in the privacy of my nights

Alone I will heal
the swelling will end
and pain will finally cease

The skin will flake
and brush away
revealing how I've changed

Like times before
I'm scarred within
the darkness of my chest

You'll always be there
tattooed on the heart
that beats beneath my breast