Scars of My Choosing

Poetry in 100 words

Picture taken by my husband, Ben in 2011. Back piece completed in 2008. Inspired by Amy Brown’s fairies 🧚🏼‍♀️

My bones are weary

So I covered my body in art 

To show 

Instead of tell

The things I cannot name

Each piece picked deliberately for its vibrancy

Each pinprick filled with ink through layers of skin

To remind myself 

I am visible 

I’m guarded by the dragons and fairies 

The fairytales made real

But only when the light hits just so

I’m bound and unbound 

Two things at once

I am the scars of my own choosing 

Words borrowed from the wind

They burrowed into the marrow Of my entire being 

Rooting me to myself 

Finally 

Setting me free

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Thank you

Nan Tepper

for the invitation to share about my ink 🖤 And it fit right into my 100 words a day challenge that I’m participating in with

Vickie Fernandez

Stephanie

Faith Scott

Constellations In Her Bones

Plata Life

Lise Tilly

I’ll go back to sharing in the Notes section so that I’m not inundating everyone with emails 🙃

Please feel free to share your own!

Thank you for being here and reading my words! I appreciate you all so very much 😍😍