Search+for+my+Tongue

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from //** Search For My Tongue **

You ask me what I mean  by saying I have lost my tongue.  I ask you, what would you do  if you had two tongues in your mouth,  and lost the first one, the mother tongue,                 and could not really know the other,  the foreign tongue.  You could not use them both together <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">even if you thought that way. And if you lived in a place you had to <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">speak a foreign tongue, <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">your mother tongue would rot, <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">rot and die in your mouth <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">until you had to “spit it out.” <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">I thought I spit it out <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">but over night while I dream, <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">

<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">(munay hutoo kay aakhee jeebh aakhee bhasha) <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">

<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">(may thoonky nakhi chay) <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">

<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">(parantoo rattray svupnama mari bhasha pachi aavay chay) <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">

<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">(foolnee jaim mari bhasha mari jeebh) <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">

<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">(modhama kheelay chay) <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">

<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> (fullnee jaim mari bhasha mari jeebh) <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">

<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">(modham pakay chay) <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">it grows back, a stump of a shoot <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">grows longer, grows moist, grows strong veins, <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">it ties the other tongue in knots, <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">the bud opens, the bud opens in my mouth, <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">it pushes the other tongue aside. <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Everytime I think I’ve forgotten, <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">I think I’ve lost the mother tongue, <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">it blossoms out of my mouth. <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">

<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> //** Sujata Bhatt **//