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A Call From Abroad


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I get a phone call every morn

from a far away land across the seas

I eagerly wait for the call moving nowhere

as the caller speaks so loving and beautiful

 

Answering each of my questions

with a grin and giggle

his voice goes up and down like a song

holding a  frequency attuned to the replies.

 

He talks with an attitude mature

listening keenly to my words

responding appropriately to them

with a melodious tone and cheer.

 

He could well understand my language

never once he put a question forward

I could make out very little of his answers

which came out with a spontaneity  straight.

 

Curious to know who it would be

you would  have by now started to deliberate

let me reveal his identity in a way

that you could comprehend and admire.

 

The caller being none other than my cute toddler

just one and half years old  learning to speak

talks he in a language of his own

which I,  half a century and more, fail to decipher.