My name is Judith, meaning She Who Is Praised I do not want to be called praised I want to be called The Power of Love. if Love means protect then whenever I do not defend you I cannot call my name Love. if Love means rebirth then when I see us dead on our feet I cannot call my name Love. if Love means provide & I cannot provide for you why would you call my name Love? do not mistake my breasts for mounds of potatoes or my belly for a great roast duck. do not take my lips for a streak of luck nor my neck for an appletree, do not believe my eyes are a warm swarm of bees; do not get Love mixed up with me. Don't misunderstand my hands for a church with a steeple, open the fingers & out come the people; nor take my feet to be acres of solid brown earth, or anything else of infinite worth to you, my brawny turtledove; do not get me mixed up with Love. not until we have ground we call our own to stand on & weapons of our own in hand & some kind of friends around us will anyone ever call our name Love, & then when we do we will all call ourselves grand, muscley names: the Protection of Love, the Provision of Love & the Power of Love. until then, my sweethearts, let us speak simply of romance, which is so much easier and so much less than any of us deserve. Judy Grahn