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SO I HAVE A TATTOO

Because it was and is painful

Not the tattoo but the loss

Of a father and a sister

And the memories in between.

The grieving seemed not to leave

As if the rains loved to pour its strength

Below a fragile roof of tears

Against a weak and wounded traveler.

So I have the cross of Jesus

My Lord and my All,

Not just in my heart invisible

But in my skin visible.

When the day is over and done

A tattoo to remind me of the fight

And the struggle to move on

That after the dark is the dawn.

Forever a reminder

That it is not in FALLING

But in the RISING after a fall

And the strength to go on.

In my desire to capture the moment

Of pain and then moving on

A tattoo to speak of that dream

And the calm after the storm.

A tattoo that in the quiet speaks

The story behind the pain

And the love that Jesus gives

And the hope for every fear.

September 26, 2007

Fr. Jun