Life's Tattoos

I watched a video on YouTube that inspired me to write this. I found the idea of a tattoo coming from your life's story to be a great writing prompt.

I was seven or eight when I first got stitches

Ten of them just before my right elbow

Seven or eight-year old me thought it was a good idea

To play Evel Knievel 

Whilst riding a bike down a ramp

The piece of tin down below had a different story to tell that day

When I was nine or ten I fell off my bike 

Landing on my right knee

Which left a pretty bad cut and scar after that

Around that same time

A school-age friend of mine jumped on a piece of fence

That was lying on the ground

We happened to be playing hide and seek 

That very piece of fence was up against my leg

And scraped it as he pressed his weight down

Leaving in its wake a stream of blood

And then again another scar

To this day the scars are visible

Some barely

But still there ever so slightly

Yet I remember the stories like they happened yesterday

Where life tattooed me

And the color of those tattoos are the stories behind the scars

@dillonleejensen