Mlweni, Sanibonani, Dumelani, Guemadag, Mwiriwe, Moro and Good day
Is it what your mother gave you?
Maybe your father?
Why abandon what your blood
gave you?
But when I think back
I remember my grandma use to tell me
When you know too many you know the world
You know people
But again I ask why know too many forget
What that woman gave you, the one
You so call a mother.
Know but don't forget
what you got from that woman
Your mother tongue is
the most precious gift
You get to take wherever you go
and
THAT IS A
-Ciza Sylvane
Nice one, Ciza. Very thought-provoking. I like the idea of our native languages being gifts that we take wherever we go.
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