His name was zane,
they called him john,
though that wasn't his name.
He asked them to stop,
though they would only claim,
that zane meant john, a German born name.
Why the ruse, a joke in my own name,
the world will know me, by my birth given name.
Who is this john, you claim, is my name,
a distant memory for me, haunting my brain,
all because I didn't know, my own name.
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