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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