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The Impossibility of Swahili


What does it really mean when you call something impossible

Because technically, 6,500 languages wouldn’t seem as plausible

Each spoken with thousands of words and syllables for each

Each spoken everyday by someone who lives on this earth

The children speak the language they were born into involuntarily, but by     necessity, 

But as for my I have my own impossibility

My dream is to learn Swahili

Spoken in Africa by 16 million people

I will be difficult, and it might be silly

So to say again, it may be an impossibility

But that attitude is inexcusable

So I’m not going to stop, no, not me

And I will learn to speak it, and I will speak it until the day I don’t breath

Because beating reality is what impossibility can’t deny

It can be done: Every. Single. Day.

 
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