By Misti Velvet Rainwater
Date: 21 April 1998

My Rightful Name

       Translate this
       uncertain kiss
     do you think you know
      your Cherokee miss?

   resulting relief
    end of grief
  blessed would be the knowledge
       however brief

     thief in the night
    steal along
      the outer edges
   of my soul's song
    you'll know by the tune
  if you belong

      some long for power
      some long for fame
      I long for my lover
        to call me
      by my rightful name.