My Language Kosli Poem by Gajanan Mishra

I am talking in Kosli
I am thinking in Kosli
I am listening Kosli
All around me,
Kosli is my mother-tongue.

My state language is odia,
Odia is a constitutional language,
Odia is a classical and rich language.

Official language act is there,
Everywhere, always within
The state of Odisha
Odia should be used,
It is clear there.

But when I entered school
I learnt ABCD and they
Are not mine I knew.
They called it English.

I entered in to service
All the works are being
Done by this English though
Not easily understandable
By the people in general.

I know by using this English language
In all official purposes within my mother-land
We are cheating my own people
I have a democratic
Sovereign republic though.

Excuse me, I am not ready to say
The people are independent from foreign rule.

People in general are in dark, is a fact.
They know not what is going on in their
State and still they are observing
Independent day, and it is disgrace.