Who Are You Really

Who are you really? Born with name to define your existing presence Words with which carry greater in essence The day arrives when name is your flawed deference Mother father chained me down against poor resistance Cultural rites manifests my primordial consistence Ignorance of both is a formula for a wasted existence Only when ceded to this name are you released by persistence? A name but a statistic of a criminal offence on a child’s response to an intolerant resistance Systematically herded like sheep to a point of insistence