Green Soap

Green Soap is in the air

Is it odd that when i get tattooed it isn't pain that i am feeling but almost like a release?
I fell asleep while two of my tattoos were being done.
There's that whole meditation thing. Take yourself to that place.
I can almost feel the slide of the needle across my flesh and a heat wave comes over my body.
The smell of green soap and latex is in the air.
The pain is more like discomfort but the surreal surroundings set you at ease.
Just when I am about to say, enough! it stops.Seeing the needle submerge into the ink and it starts again.
The continuous buzz of the machine is like the melody that carries you off to far away places.
In this crazy life I've created for myself there are things I've endured that are far more painful than any session under the needle could ever bring.
I suppose this is my own masochistic way of reminding myself that I am real and yes, it is ok to feel.
When it's all over I stop and stare and the portrayal of my thoughts, my style and my life.
This is a true representation of who I am. Only a few will truly understand my autobiography I have chosen to adorn my body with.