Help interpreting a sonnet?

Quick analysis help? What I see so far is that this is a woman who is scared to show her love outright, so she does it in the dark. I KNOW I am missing stuff. But can't seem to delve much further into it. Been on a weird poetry kick lately.I'd just like to make sure I am getting all the author is saying.


Thanks much for your help!!





"First Poem for You"


I like to touch your tattoos in complete


darkness, when I can’t see them. I’m sure of


where they are, know by heart the neat


lines of lightning pulsing just above


your nipple, can find, as if by instinct, the blue


swirls of water on your shoulder where a serpent


twists, facing a dragon. When I pull you


to me, taking you until we’re spent


and quiet on the sheets, I love to kiss


the pictures in your skin. They’ll last until


you’re seared to ashes; whatever persists


or turns to pain between us, they will still


be there. Such permanence iis terrifying.


So I touch them in the dark; but touch them, trying.

Help interpreting a sonnet?
its good, but i dont think it flows like a sonnet should. it should have iambic pantameter, going stressed, unstressed . . . five time in a line with the syllables!
Reply:She feels the connection with the tatoos, they are permanent and will always be there, even when the lovers are no longer together. She shares her love with his tatoos and they will never deny her, and will always hold her feelings. Just another thought.