Tag Archives: Happiness

I wanted to get a tattoo

Of something that was always true

To remind myself by simple sight

Of something that is always right.

I thought of words, but words can change

Like “queer” no longer meaning strange

And alphabets can change a lot…

“So much for a tattoo”, I thought

But what about a picture that

Reflects the world and where I’m at?

A picture that will grow with me

No matter who I grow to be?

I used to love a Pokemon

But my favorite one keeps moving on.

I used to think that I was wise

But what I knew were often lies.

I used to be a man of God

But now I find the Bible odd.

And then, at once, it came to me!

An image only I could see

That would grow and change as I

Would grow and change and smile and sigh:

My skin, unchanged except by age,

My empty slate, my blank white page.

I’ll know, I know, I knew I’d see

I need no mark to just be me.