Every person has a name
Given to them by God
And given by their father and his mother
Every person has a name
Given them by stature and their way of smiling,
And given to them by their clothes.
Every person has a name
Given by the mountains
And given by their walls
Every person has a name
Given by the planets
And given by their neighbors
Every person has a name
Given by their regrets
And given by their longing
Every person has a name given by those who hate them
And given by love
Every person has a name
Given them by holidays
And given them by their handiwork
Every person has a name
Given by the seasons of the year
And given by their blindness
Every person has a name
Given to them by the sea
And given to them
By their death.

Translated from the Hebrew by Ayala Emmett