On words and dreams

         does one choose the language to think in and dream in

         does one choose the words one thinks in or dreams in

         who does for us

         how does it happen that we wonder ponder articulate thoughts

         in one language rather than in another

         that our mother tongue is not necessarily the medium

         becoming a parent once removed     

        

         who watches within us discretely

         without breaking in into our deepest consciousness

         allowing a foreign tongue to take over.