Tattoo

Let the pain sear my skin
Ink stain seeping
Into the beautiful scene
Overwriting the story
Which is how I like it
Hardcore artistry
Riding the edge of unforgivable
Real permanence branded into the heart
By hot pokers cauterizing the wounds
I'll laugh as I let it bleed
Alternately the sadist and the masochist
Dual nature pulls me toward it
As I push myself away
And I am as drawn as your design
As changeable as my upper arm seems to be
Amorphous and amiable
In this evolution of passage
Sloughing off the dead cells
Trying to find some continuity
The real meaning so obscured
That it's finally obvious.