Do you love your name?

She likes to be called mummy by children,
Honey by husband, aunty by young ones,
Madam by strangers and by many more
But not by Kamala which is her name.
She herself calls herself ‘I’, not Kamala,
And if called Kamala, feels disrespected.
Why must she have then her name?

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
Submitted by Poetry Lover
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