understand that a name is a vessel for
everything you are:
your mind,
your soul,
your memories,
and everyone who has known you.
a name is all that you have been.
it is all that you have yet to become.
a name is what you are said to be,
and it is what you know
you are
not.
a name is
so
powerful.
when it leaves a pair of lips,
all of you is suspended,
drifting
battered by half-truths and opinions-
laid bare,
and yet still
loved
still
breathing
still
You.
be proud of your name,
for it is your
universe.
it is love
and it is hate.
it is joy
and it is sorrow.
it is everyone;
it is everything.
above all,
it is completely
indefatigably
eternally
You.
