Beings (Us And Them)

When they have
no set name for us
they call us “beings,”
a simple designation
that what we are
is what we do
and what we do
is be. 

Depending on
where they see us and how
we are being, we might
instead become
“angels” or “demons.”
They don’t see
that we’re the same “beings”
named, renamed, named…

We don’t have much to say
about the choices they make
when they call us up.  
We show up.
We are.  They decide
what it means.

Don’t blame us for that —
that’s up to them.
A being is just what is,

and the naming of it
is how their past
alters their present
as it tries to own their future.