Roses By Any Other Name…

Call it only what it is

and not what it is not,

not what you want it to be,

not what you want from me –

this thing

that hurts

that makes me bleed

for being what I am,

for being what you asked,

for being more

than I should have been;

so call it only what it is,

not what it could have been,

not what I believed it to be.