Fleet Maker

Why Tattoos Are More Popular Today than Ever Before

These days, it seems everyone is getting a tattoo. Everywhere you turn you see more and more people with tattoos. It’s getting harder to have an authentic and rebellious “look” when just about everyone seems to be into body-art. Tattoos have become more commonplace these days and can are safer now than they have every been before.

There are more options and more tattoo designs available today for those wanting a unique style than probably ever. More creative and skilled body artists make their living from tattoos, and you are more likely to see a tattoo in any college across America, than the local bar.

Then again, there are tattoos, and then there are “tattoos.” It is unlikely that the hard-working professional only one, hard-to-find, secretly placed tattoo, or for that matter the college student with his girlfriend’s name and two roses inked on the right shoulder blade, will ever have tattoos on more obvious and visible places, or a full chest or back tattoo or a tattooed arm or leg and even face.

Some tattoo lovers, though, have tattooed large parts of their bodies with multi-colored tattoo designs and of all manner of skulls, serpents, snakes, flame-breathing dragons, flowers, vines, angels, demons, daggers, butterflies and portraits of heroes and loved ones from the past.

A Different Place…

I wish we had met 20 years ago…
A different place, a different time
when I actually had a chance
for you to be mine…

Although we cannot change
what brought us together today,
I don’t know why it is so hard
for me to think about walking away…

From you and from us… despite
the obstacles that stand in the way
of our chance to become something
more than just yesterday -

I believe in love at first site
as silly as it sounds…
I never actually realized that
that until you came around…

With your unmistakable smile,
quick wit and flattery
like the devilish look in your eyes
whenever you see me…

I know it’s real and
I know I’m not alone
in feeling so strongly
that you’ll never be gone…

Entirely from my life
no matter what it takes
for you and me to be together
I think we’ll always make…

Up a reason to see each other,
an excuse to escape to
be together anywhere
any time - we will do

What we feel we need
to be with one another
Regardless of how short
our time is together…

The quality in moments
between you and me
is something most people
only dream they will see…

Once in this lifetime…
No matter how late
when love like ours arrives
It has to be FATE…

I thought I had lived
before I met you
but the truth is
I honestly had no clue…

About what love means
or how it’s supposed to be…
I settled for less, for men
who were not good to me.

I thank God for you
even if we have to secretly date
for another 20 years…
I know it will be worth the wait…

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