'The Process of Naming', by pyramid jones

To name a thing is to know it.

Depression has been named by those stronger than me

In Islam, Allah has 99 names

"AR-RAHMAAN'", "AR-RAHEEM"

In Islam, the Prophet Jacob called upon those names and said

"i only complain of my grief and sorrow to God, and i know from God that which you know not."

I am 7 when I first take an interest in prayer.

Standing alongside my step-father, a second behind in every movement.

Bowing before an empty space. I don't see anything and I can name it.

I am 14 when I first slaughter a lamb.

I named him.

blowing air through the windpipe into the lungs, watching them expand and retract.

i name science in a ritual for God

i am 17 when i first fire a gun

i name him

i name the recoils: the first in a weak wrist, the other in fear

i am 22 when i first experience a worry of turning 27

i name alcoholism

i name my liver an island, home to all the things that drown sorrows

In a few years, i pass out and scare my lover

i name her worry, tired is what it sounds like

i am 24 when i sober up, 25 when i relapse

i name myself weak, tired is what it sounds like

i am 28 when i first experience a love of self and i name happiness

i go through Allah's names and give myself titles

Most Merciful, Most Kind

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