Two Tongues... Poem by RIC BASTASA

i confess i am a man
with two tongues
kept on my closed mouth
my head is bombarded
with dual thoughts
one likes to speak like
a native
the other wants to impress
others with
the twang of my foreign tongue
there are two things in mind
to swim deeper and
just keep the world inside my brain
alone on the ocean floor
or to grow wings
transform myself into a bird
and fly
towards the group of stars
in the skies
or i just be another meteor
shooting into space
and be gone
to a certain destination of
another
endless quest...