Mother Tongue Poem by Sumit Ganguly

Daughter of sound and earth
You sing using vocal cords
Of sons and daughters of the soil,
Nurse the babes, let them shine and bid adieu
Through lullabies, choirs and requiems.
Generations roll on and find one day
Daughter of sound- most dear to heart.
People as Barkat, Salam, Rafiq
Sacrifice lives to let Bangladesh
Speak its mother tongue.
Still many languages are wiped out by flood
And the rest change hues as chameleons.*

*To commemorate the International Mother Language Day on 21st Feb.