What's In A Name Poem by Elaine Oxamendi Vicet

What’s in a Name

What’s in a Name?
I just want to know that.
It seems from before you are born,
People are thinking,
Of what should I call him or her?
Usually they think of him not her.

But what’s in a name?

A name is but for placement
-like a number or an ID card.
It really has no position
In a spiritual world.
Or for the soul or its laws.

The name is but one other
Thing that man has defined
And sought to qualify
To class, caste and pit
His brethren, against himself.
To uplift the self
To confuse
The naї ve
And impress his
Man being.

I tell you-
This,

What’s in a name?
But a Name!