Excerpt: Speaking in Tongues
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From ULR
Issue 5 – Human Rights
KENYA:
Shunned, a quiet spirit holds ancient multitudes, aspiring to blossom universally.
June 15, 2021
My lips pucker,
but nothing comes out.
hope for the best,
I expect the worst,
because there is so much inside of me,
too much inside of me,
from the start of where life began,
to the days where the ends of times will see itself produced.
And I see both and none of it at once.
I feel like I belong to all of the world
despite being completely shunned.
and so I hope,
I wait,
I aspire,
but accept the fact that I am ignored and forgotten,
a speck on the spotlight,
that will someday blossom and grow.
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Kiran Bhat
Kiran Bhat is an Indian-American author, traveler, and polyglot. He currently lives in Mumbai, but he has been to 147 countries, lived in 25 other places on the planet, and dabbles in twelve languages. He is known as the author of we of the forsaken world…, but has published books in five different languages, and has had his writing published in journals such as The Caravan, The Bengaluru Review, The Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, The Brooklyn Rail, 3:AM Magazine, SOFTBLOW, and many other places. You can follow him on Twitter at WeltgeistKiran.