When does a tattoo become a scar?
When 'Ohana' is scrawled across your wrist. When family, the thing that should protect you, is the source of your pain. When you are bound by blood to the person who violated you and no one told you.
Your brain had protected you, shoved your violation so deep, you have no memories of what he did to you. Your adopted family had loved you in his place. No one ever spoke of the atrocities that were done onto you. They tried to give you the best life, the closest thing to a normal childhood.
You were carrying the weight of an unknown entity. The trauma left invisible scars, the inability to trust, to love freely. You were damaged and did not know how or where to start with recovery.
Unknowingly reconnecting with your perpetrator. He played father like society tells us fathers should be. He was perfect by these standards and everyone kept letting you believe. You loved him so much you inked 'Ohana' on yourself. A declaration of your love for your father; your perpetrator.
This artwork on your wrist is a beautiful scar, a reminder that people are always who they pretend they are. Now you bear this weight visibly for the whole world to see. You hold your head high, embrace the trauma, know that you are survivor.
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