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What’s in a name
or word
matters
because they point
to what’s in space
and what existed,
resisted,
persisted
through heartache
and pain
and other things
we struggle to explain
outside the word
or name,
because
love is
not hate,
early is not late,
and tomorrow
never arrives
because the past
is present,
and so what is fate
except a word
pregnant
with the hopes and fears
of men and women
navigating space
in bodies
that leave but a faint trace,
and they had names
because words can be gifts
that inspire
and uplift,
hold and set free
relationships
with what was, is,
and what might yet be.
What’s in a name
or word
is sometimes all we have,
and we can’t exactly take them back
although we may try
after the harm,
after they cry
and ask why,
and we don’t know
how we chose that name
or word,
and we are left with sadness and regret,
for the people we love the most
are often the ones we forget,
and we don’t know how we let
it get to this place,
this space
that feels so hard
and unforgiving,
the word is called living,
but it does no justice
to how it feels
and the places
we visit along the way
and what it felt like on a Wednesday
in a year we can no longer name
or remember.
It might have been September,
but I just can’t remember
except I was there
and now I’m here
for a blink
of an eye,
I
am I,
and the word is me,
which says so very little
about how I love
and what it means to be.
What’s in a name
or word
is everything
and nothing at the same time
because
space
has no map,
and experience is all we can tap
when we strike forth,
east, west, south, or north,
narrating our lives
with words
that may or may not belong,
in story and in song,
the names we choose
and the words we use
are the things we carry
and what we lose,
and the word is choice,
the space before and after
we find our voice,
we can choose
our choice,
because
I am
what we are,
and the word
for this
does not exist.
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