My Name

Dear Father, I do not want your name any longer

I don’t want this name that was assigned to me at birth

Through fluke, accident or divine cruelty

You can trim the family tree and remove me, I am done

I want no part of this tribe and heartache any longer

I don’t want to be a part of you

Or your familial ways

You are not what I want to represent

In the eternal heavenly Book of Truth.

So Dear Father, I am giving your name back to you

Because when the angels finally call out for me

I don’t want them to send me to you and yours

Dear Father of my children, I do not want your name any longer

I thought you would be a clean start for me

And I had such high hopes that your family

Would be strong, beautiful and loving

But I was so very very wrong

I had so hoped to wear your name with pride and honor

But your ancestral arrogance never wanted to accept me as one of them

I never felt comfortable in the false

Garments of shame being your wife provided

So Dear Father of my children, I am giving your name back to you

Because when the angels finally call out for me

I do not want them to send me to your clan

Dear Love of my Eternity, I will gladly take your name,

As God intended me to

And as you asked me to do on that cold January night

When life was fading from your sharp blue eyes

And your breathing became so short and shallow

We made a covenant with each other

To love and last forever as we always have

Time had run out on earth to marry,

I want to be part of all that you are, not just for you, but for us

So Dear Love of my Eternity, I will gladly take your name

Because when the angels finally call out for me

I want them to let you know, I have come home where I belong

And that I am yours forever

- Julie O'Hara

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