English Is Your Fourth Tongue (Angrezi Teri Chothi Zubaan Hai) Poem by Ravi Kopra
English Is Your Fourth Tongue (Angrezi Teri Chothi Zubaan Hai)
Angrezi teri chothi zubaan hai
(hindi/urdu, punjabi aur hain)
(marathi, hindi, gujrati aur hain)
(kannada, tamil, malyayam aur hain)
(bengali, udesi, pahari aur hain)
tere desh main 2oo se zyda zuban han
200 baarse zyda tum keh sakte ho
main tum ko pyarr karta hoon
tumhari muskrahat main, main mar jaata hoon
khuda ke ilava is duniya main kuch nahin hai
zamaana barbaad kal yug ka hai...
lakin tum yahaan bhaagay aate ho
tooti-footi angrezi main apni kavita jhaD jaate ho
hey khuda, hey Allah, hey Raam, hey Krishna
hey bBuddah, hey Ganesha
hey Shiva, hey Kaali Maata
Kyon tum sub bhartiaoN ka, pakistioN ka
moonh bund kar ke baithay ho.
Spoiled Child
by Pages Matam
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English is your fourth language
the baby of the family
the one your mouth spoils
favorite by default
who may one day be sold off by its siblings
in hopes to never return
all of your other tongues have grown jealous
your country has over 200 dialects
that's over 200 ways
to say Love
to say family
to say I am a song
to say I belong to something
that does not want to kill me
& does not want to siphon the gold from my
blood or the stories from my bones.
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