Well, you know if you're reading this, I have had a total of 5 piercings (not all at once, but four at once though.) Both sides of my lip and both eyebrows at the same time-- and now my verticle labret.

Most people look at me and assume I got piercings simply because I am a teenager, and want to look like everyone else in this damned world.

Here is the REAL reason why: Yes, I do think piercings are cool-- they look awesome. But there is another side to mine. The pain that has been put upon me.

I didn't know my father until I was 8 years old, never knew his name-- when I was 9 he moved to California promising to call. But so many broken promises feel like shattered glass left into your skin.

My mother was always rude, cared about her boyfriends more (and still does.)

My grandparents that I care about so much, the ones that have raised me were in a car wreck back in December of 2004 and now my grandfather is handicapped.

And those are only the three main things.

Too many broken promises, too many lies. Too many sorrows to hold up this disguise (< o0o, Imma use that in a poem-- sorry of topic).

I get my piercings because they show how I feel inside. Every broken promise, every little lie-- something was left inside of me and it just got healed over and I walk with it every day.

The jewlery of the piercing represents the thing left inside. The initial piercing is the pain it caused. And the healing process is that of how I heal with the pain-- though the pain never truly goes away.

When I am older, and I get tattoos-- they will symbolize something, but they'll represent scars too. ©Amanda J. Potter