is this the patria of your paterfamilias

or is it the adopted nation of opportunity?

is this the idiom of your ancestors

or is it the lingua frankly overtaken

slowly eroding the patrimonial mothertongue

& leaving you with maybe some expressions

is it chance? is it a domino-fall

that you talk like you do, believe, behave,

call yourself a name, citizen of a nation,

can you go back? can you ever go back?

god take me back three generations

I don’t want to dream this dream anymore

or take me three generations ahead

& let the grandkids teach me a better language