Names
My children will be named as gods
Or elves or stars or mighty heroes
Whoever names their progeny a mere name
Is depriving them expression, completion
Artemis, Pemberley, Rome
Aron, Apollo, Caius, Raquel
Maxwell, Odysseus, Andromedus
Arwen, Luthien, Gwendolyn
Aphrodite, Jocelyn, and Gerard
Byron, Shelley, and Darcy
Name a child and you name a world
Instill in a child a story?
You birth poets, warriors, and dreamers
Or elves or stars or mighty heroes
Whoever names their progeny a mere name
Is depriving them expression, completion
Artemis, Pemberley, Rome
Aron, Apollo, Caius, Raquel
Maxwell, Odysseus, Andromedus
Arwen, Luthien, Gwendolyn
Aphrodite, Jocelyn, and Gerard
Byron, Shelley, and Darcy
Name a child and you name a world
Instill in a child a story?
You birth poets, warriors, and dreamers


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