Handwritten black script reading "with you, I am home" on a cream background, shown as a lettering design for a tattoo.

With you, I am home lettering design

Lettering · Black and grey · Flash

Two lines of handwritten black script read "with you," and "I am home." on a cream background with a soft vignette. The strokes are thin and fluid, with a long looping flourish beneath the first line that sweeps under the words. Only black ink appears, and the lettering fills most of the frame.

Lettering Script Quote Handwriting Home

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The kettle has gone cold twice since I started this, so forgive the blots. Mrs Pryce from the top farm came down with a basket of eggs and asked whether you would be back for the lambing. I told her you would be here when the ewes needed you, same as always. She looked at your empty chair by the range the way people look at a grave they have not yet visited.

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The roof over the back bedroom has let in water again. I have set the good pan under the drip and moved the blanket box out of the way. Every evening at six I walk down to the stile, as you asked me to, and the lane stays empty until the dark comes down over the wall. I have stopped pretending I do not count the cups on the dresser.

Yesterday I took the long way round by the beeches, where we used to stop and argue about whether the path was a path at all. The bracken is up to my knee now. In the hollow of the third tree I found your old clasp knife wrapped in oilcloth, which makes no sense unless you left it there on purpose, so I would have something of yours to hold while you were gone. It is on the table beside this letter, and I keep looking at it.

I am not going to tell you to come home before the spring fair. I know what the wages are worth and what the bank wants. Only write, or send word with the carter, so I know which road to watch. The house leaks and the chairs need mending, but it is yours to walk into when you come up the lane. With you, I am home, and the rest is only roof and weather.