You Do Not Look To Be An English Poet, But An Indian Poet Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Dear Sir, introduce you not yourself
As an Indian English poet,
If English is not your mother tongue
And you unable to speak in English,
Speaking haltingly
With hitches and hurdles everywhere,
Full of errant expression
And contoured statement.

I know you that you are an Indian,
Not an Englishman
And English not your mother tongue,
But an alien one,
You not the right speaker,
But a foreigner
Speaking in English,
Looking like an Englishman
But are not,
One in dhoti and kurta
While the other in lungi and vest.