Babel

I love learning to communicate in

A language other than my native English.

I gladly memorize nouns and tirelessly

Absorb new conjugations because

Te lo digo de corazón, honestly,

I am learning more than a new language.

I am learning fresh ways of thinking

About what’s in my heart.  Esperado,

Hoping and waiting are sometimes the same thing.

Dejar, to quit is to leave something behind.

En espanol, a storm is nature’s way of tormenting

The earth; I own my hunger; wives are handcuffs,

I have found a language that understands the way I feel.

I wish I had the capacity to learn every language.

Imagine the thoughts I could have, the poetry I could

Write, the ideas I could share, if I could delve into the

Speech patterns of all of my earthly neighbors. We wouldn’t

Build a tower tall enough to anger God;  we would just

Make a blueprint of our similarities, full of doors

Flinging open with every entiendo.