What is Your name?
Not the name of Your disease
not the name others have called You.
Your name that is
Special and star-like
Blessed and beautiful,
Your name
for You alone?
It might have been a long time
since You have heard it.
It might have been never.
The names others have given You
might not be true
might not fit
in the same way that
hand me down clothes
Don’t.
In the same way that
sometimes You have to
make Your own clothes
stitch
by
stitch
to have something
that fits
sometimes You have to
Discover
Uncover
Recover
Your name.
You might not be the name
You were given at birth.
You might not be
mother, brother,
day labor, CEO,
friend, failure
gambler, penny pincher
mentally ill, stable
ex con, confidante.
The names that stick to You
(or are stuck on You)
out of relationship
or habit
or job
or history
or health
might be a part of Your name
or Your name might be
Entirely apart
from them.
What is Your name
Your true name
deep inside Your heart
small and bright and solid
And beautiful?
Immovable
Unchanging
Eternal
like the stars
like the sea.
The vastness of forever is inside you.
Find Your name
And You find Yourself
again
or for
the first time.
betsybeadhead 