Foreign Accent
To be corrected for doing right and to be laughed at for strangeness...
By Homayra AdibaPublished 3 months ago • Updated 3 months ago • 1 min read
Photo by Erick Butler on Unsplash
She laughed at my way of speaking... my accent.
He laughed, they laughed...
I laughed too.
I laughed, not because
I was not from where they were from.
Nor because I thought I sounded funny.
I laughed, because
my accent is my proof of my access...
to more than one language of literature,
poetry, songs, lore, and more.
I laughed, because
none of these mattered to me, at the end of the day
to recognize love.
About the Creator
Homayra Adiba
Homayra Adiba is a Bangladeshi American artist and student anthropologist, studying at the University of Michigan.
https://www.homayraadiba.com



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