Why must this happen?
Doesn’t society know that it hurts?

I always thought that it was funny when my mom spoke broken english.
The way she didn’t know when to use proper pronouns and articles and all that.

But now, I realized that I can’t speak her language fluently.
Now I’m the one that doesn’t know when to use proper pronouns and articles and all that.

I didn’t know that it hurt.

The laugh they do when you misconjugate something, the edges of the mistake scratching your mouth as it comes out, the embarrassment of your confusion.

It is just one language.
It is just one phrase.
It is just one word.

The wounds getting deeper with every new misstep I conjure up.

All I do is speak a broken language.

Why can’t the edges be smoother?