me, but not only a name

 

 

 

When my parents say my name

 

It sounds like,

 

“Hurry up, finish all your works quickly!”

 

 

 

When my younger cousins say my name

 

It sounds like,

 

“Go out with me and give me candies!”

 

 

 

When my friends say my name,

 

It sounds like

 

They need me to confront any problem with them.

 

 

 

When strangers say my name,

 

It sounds like

 

They want to step in my memories from then on.

 

 

 

When Americans say my name

 

Sometimes it sounds like

 

They are using a particular way to

 

Pronounce a particular word

 

That no one has been seen.

 

 

 

When my relatives say my name in China

 

It sounds like

 

I never left them and

 

Our hearts are together all the time.

 

 

 

When an angel says my name in my dreams,

 

It sounds like

 

I am living in my own hopefully way and

 

Ready to get my own wings.

 

 

 

So,

 

When you say my name,

 

Do not say it as a “name” from your memory of your brain,

 

But say it meaningfully as me from your heart.