This is my first tattoo, it was done by Coppersnake at Orlando Tattoo Company. It is a rose with text that reads "I am a part of all that I have met." That is from a poem called Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson.I got this tattoo because I have had some pretty horrible things happen to me in life. The thorns on the rose symbolize bad experiences, but thorns protect roses from predators, or, worse things from happening. Even though roses have thorns they are still beautiful.