Bilingual

Words tumble in my ears

All irregular and fuzzy;

It's hard to utter el ingles,

So what make el espanol so buzzy?

Both languages, it appears,

Are beautiful when spoken slowly;

But what is this cacophony

When each is garbled and made so lowly?

Cuerpo seems to mean a body,

While puerco is a pig, or dirty.

Maybe this is somehow similar

With words like heir and hair?

Meanwhile I do ponder

While I write poetry in English:

Will I ever get to wonder

In English, while I write in Spanish?