between my birth year and now i have flown from one name to another carrying the essence and fragrance of each name along with me out of love, i was named love, Preeti but people called me kali instead for I was a dark chocolate flavoured kid who was cooked for long in the furnace perhaps, I was given milk baths and rolled over powdered sugar for I changed from bournville to milkybar and begun to resemble my mother i got admitted to school as Simmi for my father wanted a different name for me that made people often wonder whether i was Hindu, Punjabi or Muslim but definitely not a tamil name Simmi is so when i got married my in laws preferred to call me Preethi with a 'h' in it but he calls me simmi and has accepted my name as it is. #yqbaba #birthyear #napowrimo #napowrimoday21 #poemtime #storybehindname
