Stories Tattooed On Our Arms

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Each time the glint catches the eye;
a single blade silver and dry.
A rhythm deep on the inside
beating loud and concealing cries.
Metal winks again and again.
For peace of mind, the skin turns red. I like this line, I think it pretty clearly exemplifies what your after, that is assuming I have any idea of what your after > .< Would be interesting to try this as a refrain, just an idea.

Masked by a laugh so full and pure,
the rapids of emotions soar.
Forgotten freedom locked up, chained.
During weakness, the sadness reigned
It’s lucky though, to have a friend I sense a change of tone here, things start to feel less tensiony
hoping to help temptation end. With this whole stanza I think the rhymes feel a lil bit stiffer then the rest of the poem

Some comfort radiates between I like this image, with radiating comfort
bodies, with eyes glaring so keen.
Two hands clasped with the fingers tied,
never concealing when they lied.
A gentle touch and whispered cry
offers insight to answer why.

Remember, words can only sting
a wound left open from past pain,
bruises created from a hand
make better conversations, and
the scars that once sounded alarms
are stories tattooed on our arms.

I think there are some good ideas here with that tattooe stuff. I get there are two friends in this poem "It’s lucky though, to have a friend" Im just scratching my head a lil bit. My super literal interpretation would be that that there are two friends and one, or maybe both have a troubled past but they are helping each other get through it, and have a tattooe as the story of that?

The first stanza feels like its all about the action of getting tatooed

The second stanza "Forgotten freedom locked up, chained./During weakness, the sadness reigned" while I thought maybe this speaks to him getting tattooed thus he cant move it seems more dramatic then that so I took it as maybe the person is in a literal prison like jail, or they have something weakening them thus locking them up. Then "hoping to help temptation end" clearly the friend is helping in some struggle with "temptation" I thought maybe a drug issue but it could just be the temptation to stop while being tattooed, but again it feels too dramatic for that.

The third stanza I get the positivity between the two's relationship with the first half, the second leaves me a tad confused. The bit with "a gentle touch and whispered cry/offer insight to answer why" leaves me wondering why still. What about this cry and touch clasp hands together and ties fingers?

Then the fourth stanza is prty straight forward. I guess the only part that was a bit ambiguous to me here is that I wasn't sure if "scares that once sounded alarms" was meant to mean their scares alarmed people or if they got scars in ways that set off alarms, such as doing something illegal. The latter would support the idea of prison I got from the second stanza. Anyway thats my interpretation of everything .

JMHO JMHO thnx for sharing ^_^