May 15, 2013
"A New Tattoo" by Viola Grey
I'll wear you always, etched to my skin mythically rising from the flames where you live to fight another day. Emerging from ashes of your own demise, resplendent reds upon golden fire, a teardropp to heal, song within your cry, power of the Gods. Above your wings lays the inscription: Nothing Lasts Forever, in stark reference to the life I know. You, however, will fly upon my flesh as long as I survive, until I'm bathed in fire