Why Must I Choose
How do they expect me to name my desires, my dreams, my everything
How do they expect me to chose ten words or less to display my thoughts, my ideas
What’s the title, where’s the name?
The haunting questions chase me
Why must it have a name?
Can it not be nameless, can its passion not compensate for its name
No name no visibility they cry
Who am I to give, to pry
You are the mother of your work they say
Nay I am only the voice that speaks these words
I am no mother, no creator
I am a vessel that transports the thoughts of my imagination onto paper
These words are not solely mine
They are the words of my experience, of my mother, of my live, and of the Giver
Do not burden me with the task of naming these words
They are not my children,
They are my brethren
I can not name what is truly not mine
For all my words belong to that One
These words are not mine,
They are His
As one of His creations, everything I have, everything I am is His
Do not make me write a title,
Let the nameless words speak to the wind
Whispering their tale upon the leaves
Creating their own legacy
Their own name.