GOVERNMENT NAME

Thousands of suns

Have come and shone,

Risen and fallen

On the moniker I was given

I’ve seen clouds that promised rain

And precipitations that never came,

I have gazed on quickly faded silver lining

And live through many moments that left me sighing

Can’t say I wear this name

But I bear this name

This name that the law knows me by

This name, I still can’t identify,

This name I sometimes think was badly drawn

But, will I be the same with another one?

I have taken pleasure in the pieces of its good fortune

And I have borne the heavy weight of its burden.

Lift me up, God that’s what the name says

I need to hear it roar from its present silence

I bear this name

And I plan to wear this name.