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Perks of being a language user

Can we live outside the language?
Without the burden of word pyramids
and carefully built sentence structures
with no mispelled nouns or verbs, you or me.
Had a dump of grammar mistakes as a kid
We dared to scribble errors
With the flow of time we grew cowards
Do not wanted to be mistaken ever
It is easier to live that life
Following someone else's path
You know what's ahead, safe and quiet
People be like, identical walking tombs
World be like, cemetery of orderly arranged graves 
Just like a poem written in meter.

Language is a set of rules followed by set of other rules
It backup your thoughts with norms no one asked of
Thus you won't make mistakes
Because you don't know what is right.





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  1. Anonymous1 May 2022 at 11:33

    Irony here is poet is a language student !!

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  2. Jeevan Sruthy 1 May 2022 at 12:38

    The real irony here is that the poet uses language to share her thoughts in this poem😌🌻👏👏

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