Sujata Bhatt Search For My Tongue Poem

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​I've forgotten,​it ties the ​
​(modhama kheelay chay)​(may thoonky nakhi ​, ​
​Everytime I think ​grows longer, grows moist, grows strong veins,​
​bhasha nmari jeebh)​bhasha)​websites: ​
​other tongue aside.​a shoot​
​(foolnee jaim mari ​
​aakhee jeebh aakhee ​Information obtained from ​it pushes the ​
​it grows back, a stump of ​
​aavay chay)​(munay hutoo kay ​of my mouth.​
​in my mouth,​(modhama pakay chay)​
​mari bhasha pachi ​I dream,​it blossoms out ​the bud opens, the bud opens ​
​bhasha mari jeebh)​(parantoo rattray svupnama ​
​but overnight while ​mother tongue,​
​knots,​(fullnee jaim mari ​
​chay)​to spit it ​I think I've lost the ​
​other tongue in ​spit it out​
​your mother tongue ​lived in a ​

​use them both ​and could not ​two tongues in ​

​have lost my ​until you had ​

​tongue,​And if you ​You could not ​

​the mother tongue,​if you had ​

​by saying I ​

​in your mouth​speak a foreign ​

​thought that way.​

​the foreign tongue.​first one,​
​do​
​what I mean​I thought I ​rot and die ​
​to​even if you ​
​other,​and lost the ​
​I ask you, what would you ​You ask me ​
​out.​would rot,​
​place you had ​together​



​really know the ​your mouth,​
​tongue.​
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