Black script tattoo reading Love me for who i am with a small butterfly above the words, across the upper chest near the shoulder.

Script quote and butterfly across the chest

Lettering · Chest · Black and grey · Photo

A close view of a fine black script tattoo reading "Love me for who i am" running diagonally across the upper chest. A small butterfly sits above the lettering, and part of a shaded rose is visible at the top right on the shoulder. The ink is black with grey tones on a light skin tone, and the image is framed tightly on the collarbone area.

Lettering Fine line Chest Shoulder Script Quote Butterfly Rose

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

You have been practising the words on the back of an old coal-dust calendar since Tuesday, because your hand goes wobbly the moment you try them in ink and the letters lean like men walking into a wind. Your father says a proper hand shows a proper mind. Your brother says nothing at all, because he is still down the pit on the afternoon shift and cannot tell you what to write.

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Ada Hebden, who does the sewing at the Miners' Institute, has promised to pin the note inside the lamp room door where the men hang their tins. She says they will read anything with a pretty script on it. You tell her the note is not for the men. It is for Owen Pryce, who came over the hill from Merthyr with a butterfly scratched into his lamp tin and a laugh that carried all the way down the shaft. He has never once asked you to be quieter or neater or more like the girls who sing in chapel.

So you stop trying to make the letters fine. You write them the way you talk when nobody is listening, quick and a little crooked, with a tiny butterfly squeezed in above the word for who. The rose bush by the back wall has dropped its last petals onto the step, and you sweep them into the coal scuttle before the wind can carry them off.

When the cage comes up at six, Owen reads the note under the yard lamp, folds it twice and tucks it in his cap. He says your handwriting is a disgrace. Then he takes the cap off, shakes out the coal dust, and says it again, slower, as if he means every word of it.