To pierce your skin just once
To name it your own again 
That's ok 
To pull it apart and  
beg for it back  
That's not  
Never denied self-expression 
Do not misunderstand 
Resentment is absent 
because I didn't invite it 
But taking back 
what you already own  
is a better feeling 
no stealing  
no lying 
All we want is to  
look deep into the eye of the beholder 
and say  
I am me again. 

thoughts.

I recently got my nose pierced and it got me thinking about the significance of doing something like that, why different people do it, what it says about a person and how they can be perceived. I find it very interesting that something so simple could have such an impact to how people respond to you. To some it can feel like the defining of a phase they went through at a certain point in their life, and when the time comes these things can be reversed, when the necessary process of self expression is done. For others, it becomes a definitive part of who they are and an extension of themselves. It can serve as a coping mechanism, a way of attempting to find who you are, or a simple impulse decision that either sticks or doesn’t.

But, no matter what it is for you, it can be a poetic thing, like most things, and as we begin this new year and new decade, I find that if I have taken a step to become more me, now is the time to celebrate it.