Inspired by “The Story of English” by Robert McCrum, William Cran and Robert MacNeil.
The words surround us like a sea
and, as the dark abyss will peak,
will ebb and swell with mystery,
so does the language that we speak.
The words we hold, perchance discard,
will differ with the where and whence;
yet English grows with each new card,
homogenized by common sense.
On Dublin streets, in Boston bars
the speech will sing its odd refrain;
our language bears its local scars
yet stays intact and shall remain
the sum of all that we have wrought,
our common words-- our common thought.
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