Your parents fought hard to
Settle on a common name for you
After your birth.
As a compromise your dad
Prefixed you secretly after his ex.
Coincidentally your mom was
Relieved to know that the suffix
Rhymed with the one she once
Crushed on in school.
So you have two nicknames now
That are distinctively uttered by a
Male and a female in your home.
And the syllable that holds together
The divide in your name sits
Overstretched in silence, and that
Pretty much sums up
The life you've had till now.
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