Nameless

Cherry

By onemorething

Wed, 31 Jul 2019
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I had a name once,

a word to identify, 

to specify and signify,

that separates one from another,

a recognition; to be called by or for,

a name for letters and bills

and emails, postcards, bank cards,

certificates and deeds, 

headstones and wills,

everything is in a name

or something is, at least,

a name to know me,

a name to show you,

faceless in its absence,

perhaps I was careless,

misplaced it, or one day awoke

and it’d been stolen or just forgotten or

maybe I was always

this untameable,

unnameable,

nameless thing. 

 

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Submitted by socialeaf on

This is excellent. 

 

Submitted by onemorething on

Oh, thank you! 

 

Submitted by luigi_pagano on

Hi, my nameless fellow writer,
I have been following your progress and noticed that you have been prolific of late with excellent submissions that I have thoroughly enjoyed.
What I found interesting though was that you were inspired to write this by being asked your name and reading it reminded me of an old poem of mine dealing with ID loss. I may be tempted to resurrect it.

Best wishes, Luigi
 

 

 

 

Submitted by onemorething on

Hello writer unafraid to embrace their own name (Aka Luigi, which is quicker to type!), thanks so much, that’s very kind of you to say. I have been quite prolific, I’m convinced that I’ll slow down, apart from anything because I won’t be on holiday forever, but so glad that you have enjoyed them. Please resurrect your ID loss poem, I always read and enjoy your poems too. :)

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

or maybe you outgrew it. Or life's lexicon discovered you had been mislabelled all the time

 

Submitted by onemorething on

Ha. Both are definite possibilities! I quite like the idea of being mislabelled. :)