Did you know
\nthe word tattoo
\noriginated as \u201ctap-too\u201d?<\/p>\n
A sound based on a militant drum beat,
\none i can hear perfectly in the sound
\nof a needle berating my skin,
\nthe pattern that I designed being etched
\ninto the pale placement I picked for it.<\/p>\n
Sometimes that perfect pattern of pokes
\nis enough
\nto settle a racing mind.
\nThat tap-too of the tattoo is a calming force
\nin a panicked life.<\/p>\n
The day I called a friend
\nand she didn\u2019t answer
\nmy heart stopped<\/p>\n
Minutes later,
\non the phone with her parents
\nmy heart broke. <\/p>\n
Hearing about her secrets,
\nher hidden pains
\nput me in a state of eruption.<\/p>\n
Terror, desolation , anger, guilt
\ncame spilling out of me for days,
\nthe sounds of \u201cColors of the Wind\u201d on repeat in the back of my mind,
\na constant reminder of our connection
\nand my fear of losing her.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are all connected to each other Now that constant reminder The therapy is working. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Did you know the word tattoo originated as \u201ctap-too\u201d? A sound based on a militant drum beat, one i can hear perfectly in the sound of a needle berating my skin, the pattern that I designed being etched into the pale placement I picked for…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1218,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48976"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59041,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48976\/revisions\/59041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nin a circle, in a hoop
\nthat never ends\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
\nis etched on my forearm
\nno longer a deliberate Disney song,
\nnow a tribute to the people who are a part of me,
\nand the Pocahontas playlist has stopped.<\/p>\n