This poem written by Sujata Bhatt explores her feelings about speaking two different languages, and shows how she feels that by speaking a foreign tongue, instead of the mother tongue (your native and original language. It can also mean the language from which another language has developed). At the start of the poem Sujata explains that she has lost her tongue, this means that she thinks she has forgotten how to speak her original language as it has been lost from speaking a different one for so long. The interesting quote

"and if you lived in a place where you had to

Speak a foreign tongue,

Your mother tongue would rot,

Rot and die in your mouth,

Until you had to spit it out"

Shows that the author of the poem thinks...