Only One Tongue
Location
I can speak three languages
In one sentence.
I can understand five,
Being spoken all at once.
So why is it that I can’t help
One little girl, lost and alone in a new country.
Not many seem to understand how hard it is
To be thrown somewhere new,
Without any support or background.
When she smiles,
I hope she can comprehend just how far she’s come,
From the start.
Every day is unknown,
Everyone a mystery.
But when she speaks, and smiles, and understands!
The words I have been telling her,
It makes me proud
To know that one language
Can connect us both.