What Your Given Name Signifies

This is what your given name signifies:
merely the fact that it is given.
Your name is what others told you your name is—
you cannot reason your way to it

Likewise the cosmos. It can’t be argued”
though we do, of course, draping matter with mind.
Biting the world, we are the biter bit,
apprehended by that we apprehend. Or not.

There’s more to this than meets the eye, we say.
But that’s true of you as well. Your given name shows this.

Craig Payne