Her new name was tattooed to her wrist   It was longer than the old one   Sealed in the silence with a fist   This night will be a cold one   Centuries live in her eyes   Destiny laughs over jack-booted thighs   “Work makes us free” says the sign   Nothing leaves here alive   Tattoo      She steps out of line to the left   And her father to the right   One sides a cold, clean death   The other is an endless night   Gold from a grandmother’s tooth   Mountains of jewelry and toys   Piled in the corners, mailed across the borders   Presents for the girls and boys   Presents for the girls and boys   Tattoo      And it gets darker every night   Spread-eagled out among the stars, she says   “Somewhere in this tunnel lives a light   Still my beating heart   I have never known a man   What man will want me now?   Am I still alive, somehow?   If I can survive, somehow   Tattooed”      Soldiers from the other side   Liberated them at dawn   Gave her water, gave her life   She still had all her clothes on   She lived until she died   Empty as the autumn leaves that fly   Surgeons took the mark   But they could not take it far   It was written on her heart   Written on her empty heart   Tattooed