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June 15, 2011
By InnerPoetryFreak BRONZE, Eugene, Oregon
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If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing stand in your way. The best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities.

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After the fire,
my skin went cold.

My heart iced over.

With everyone gone, I am the only survivor,
all happy memories clouded, all of my
love gone.

I made the ink.
All of it was black.

I brought out the needles.

The thorns wrapped around my skin


The wings spread across my back.

The rest of my skin

tattooed

with ash roses.

© Sam G., Bethesda, MD

The author's comments:
This is spired partly by Alice Hoffman's "Green Angel" and partly by my own story.
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