TONGUISTIC VICTIMHOOD

Alexander K Opicho

(Eldoret, Kenya;[email protected])

Languages are elastic realities of ages

 Going beyond political and historical chauvinism

That selfishly blends into exclusive nations

The European languages we slavishly speak

In diversity of the world is a virgin testimony,

Ostensible Afro-American cultural civilization

Are mere protégés of transplanted tongues

In forlorn position of knowledge

That derides cultural Darwinism

Unto this last that Language

is born and grow from the native soil,

Nurtured by facts of history in timbre of altruism

Where misfortune of history raped my stature

Planting unknown and unnamed language

In my virgin soil of pristine times

My conscience not yet passively accepting

The changing misfortunes of the transplanted English

As they are at current times

The negations of vicious cultural Darwinist

Condemning me a victim of tonguistry.