Searching For A Name Poem by Bharati Nayak
Searching For A Name
I was born to a home
Where every body calls it Mr.X's home
I was married to a Home
Where everybody calls it Mr.Y's home
And refers me
As Mr.Z's wife
I became a mother
They call me as someone's mother
I brought home
A daughter-in-law
They call me as someone's mother-in-law
My name is never referred
I always live by
With some names tagged by
I took upon it myself
To earn a name
Where Mr.X, Y, Z and A, B, C, D, E
Will be tagged after me
The question haunted me
And I hunted for a space
For myself
I came to meet
Poem Hunter without a prefix
Oh! At last there I found
My sweet little name
And the Big Big Home.
Thank God you finally got a name and a home likewise to me. I would like to call you someone, ' my mentor' cause I got inspired by this poem. I am happy at this age you are still chasing your dreams. Thank you for fighting for your dream.
Thank you bethany vampz for following my page! I am so glad to know that this poem inspires you.God bless!
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Yes! This thing of calling a woman Mr. So-and-so's wife, fiance, ex-wife, widow may give another a reference point as to who we are but it is annihilating to our sense of ourselves as a distinct human being of our own. I first noticed this sort of thing when I was called and called others So-and-so's Mother. That gave us a point of reference but it also said that we didn't know each other. I am so delighted that you found yourself recognized as a specific individual human being here on PoemHunter- -recognized as a poet, recognized for your thoughts and your feelings. I am glad you wrote this poem and awakened us all to recognizing and respecting each other as poets, writers, commentators, readers and people who come from different backgrounds and different life experiences and how pleasing all that is when I now realize I know a person called Bharati Nayak and know she is a warm, intelligent, talented woman. This poem effects change and that is a mark of a great piece of literature. Well done, Bharati, well done.. .
Thank you dear Susan Williams for reading my poems and giving your inspiring comments.
Thank you Susan, for acknowledging Bharat's talents and appreciating her poem so eloquently. Your comment to is beautiful, appreciative and kind. I do appreciate your thoughts. You have spoken a lot much like what I have thought about the poem and the poet.