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Posted on October 4th 2018
National Poetry Day - 4th October 2018
Everyone has a favourite poem about change: here is one of the genre that we hope you will enjoy sharing on National Poetry Day 4th October 2018
Front Door
Wherever I have lived,
walking out of the front door
every morning
means crossing over
to a foreign country.
One language inside the house,
another out.
The food and clothes
and customs change.
The fingers on my hand turn
into forks.
I call it adaptation
when my tongue switches
from one grammar to another,
but the truth is I’m addicted now,
high on the rush
of daily displacement,
speeding to a different time zone,
heading into altered weather,
landing as another person.
Don’t think I haven’t noticed
you’re on the same trip too.
By
Imtiaz Dharker