Name Calling

Some women have called me "Baby" in their throes.
Some call on the Almighty.
And there are those
who to tell me what we’re  doing
to make it so.

There’s behavior beyond name calling: 
a moan, a scream
or a wail as though something is broken.

Or my place is taken, 
especially when my name's been mistaken
and I hear invoked
a name that was never my own:
so the ardor’s broken.

Sex is a physical exchange where no names are needed.
To waste the air calling names
is most unfair
to the Goddess who silently reigns.

You rarely hear
the name “Aphrodite” invoked
as your hair’s pulled out.