Jonathan Berger's Poetry: Poem of the Day
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FOREIGN TONGUES

We are so different.
We look so different
we live so differently
love so differently
our beliefs
our creeds
our systems of justice
they diverge dramatically.

We talk in different tongues
you speak the language of love
I speak fear.
It’s amazing we understand each other at all.

But perhaps it’s a polar effect
maybe our massive distinctions
generate our heavy attraction
or whatever it is that binds us.

There has to be some explanation for this
that leaves us successfully spooning
complimenting each other up the ying-yang
supremely supplemental.

I don’t know if the Hows or the Whys matter so much, though…
What does matter, though, is this:
Yours is the only foreign tongue
I want to taste.