dialects accents
enunciation
vocal inflections
we speak
one language or another
our mother tongue
among others
we understand
what we can
we listen we read
meaning into messages
communication
takes effort how can I explain?
we criticize another human’s
broken english
not considering the words
are foreign and she or he
or they
speak another language
naturally
where I speak only one language
I cannot fully understand
any of the others
they are foreign
to me
© 2022 j.g. lewis
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