By Any Other Name

William Shakespeare says

A rose by any other name

Would smell as sweet

But would it

Really?

Our world says

That a sin 

By any other name

Isn’t 

Sin

Something 

By any other name

Changes our views

If you called 

A rose a skunk cabbage

Would it smell as sweet?

If you called 

Lust 

Attraction

Would it be any different?

You can’t call 

Life 

Death

By any other name 

It’s not true. 

Changing the name

May change the 

Meaning 

Changing the world

May change

Our eternity

By any other name 

Isn’t as true

As some people 

Would like to believe.

By any other name

Is a myth many people

Foolishly believe.

 

This poem is about: 
Our world

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