31 March 2014

Magpie Tale 213: His Other Life


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Shaking hand opened the drawer
Wormy chestnut, waxy blackened 
angsty scrawls of sun-faded youth 
Burden of years constricts the heart
that sees the tarot of inks it never wore 
Never will, not in this life, nevermore,
Change has come, blood spilled
in a different river from passion's run

6 comments:

  1. hmmm, so...He was a kid that wanted to be a tattoo artist but found adulthood not conducive to that passion?

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    1. I felt it more as metaphor for paths not taken, things not done, due to fear of the unknown.

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  2. That shaking hand makes me nervous with the razor...

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  3. Those first three lines really reeled me in!

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"Let your laws come undone
Don't suffer your crimes
Let the love in your heart take control..."


-'The Hair Song', by Black Mountain

Tell me what is in your heart...