I am the Paper

Thanks Sarah, It looked really good on my arm when I first wrote it, shame the ink wasn't permanent - perhaps one day I will summon up the courage to get it done as a tattoo. It's really about the need to write and an attempt to capture the mood of that quiet moment. But poems should work on differnet levels and I think it is good that readers bring their own interpretations and concerns and make different connections. Afterwards it inspired a quite different poem that definitely had elements of self or non-self harming so maybe that was always there when I wrote this although not entirely consciously