Poetry by Shiny✨🩵 "My Last Name"

Dear Readers, ♥️

Thank you all for reading, and for your notes about my poems.

While writing my return address this week, I thought of this one.

Love,
Shiny ✨

My Last Name       June 11 

Ask me about my last name. 
Everyone does.

Didn’t you want to change it? 
Don’t you miss your old name? 
Doesn’t it remind you of him? 
Aren’t you
worried? 

I am the one who changed it 
so many years ago. 

I am the one who sat 
in the social security office.

These are my names.

So I’ll use them whenever 
and however
I want.

It depends on 
where I am. 

Who I’m with.

How I feel that day.

I did a lot with his. 
Made it a household sales name.
Built and then divided an empire. 

I did a lot with mine.
Earned two degrees.
Taught everyone to spell and pronounce it.
Got a nickname to keep.

They’re both mine.

So, I take them on and off like layers.
I can take them 
or leave them. 

That’s why I’ll never lose Shiny.
In me since the very beginning. 

The real me at the core. 

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