What’s in a Name?

But our names, even before birth,

What were they. Someone named us

Before we knew our own. Parents, or whomever cared. How is that?

Did we then invent them (later in life), or were they already there?

Each bird has her name, and a family name. How

Is that, said an owl to me last night.

Or, Did Love name us all, she whispered as she left.

Why not, a loving kind Father, I mentioned in her wake….

Yes, what tyrant would name a child without caring,

The Wind responded. And who do you know who is unnamed?