On Language and Other things, poem and commentary

By Norma Lilia Ruiz Cruz

This piece is part of a series by the Global Vision Initiative titled “Lost in Translation”. To read more, please head to our Medium account or to our website here.

I’ve written many essays, journal entries, poems and plays about language, so when I first received this assignment I didn’t know what to share. I have many thoughts and scribbles scattered across different writing journals in my room that maybe I’ll share some day, but for this piece, I decided to share a poem with you. I wrote this…