Thursday, January 7, 2021

indelible ink

ink
is hard to get out.

on the shirt
or page,

the skin even.
what words we write

are rarely erased,
they live

to spite another day.
the heart

upon a bicep.
a anchor

on a chest, a poem
upon

a tree.
there it is, though 
just for a short

while.
not eternity.

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