She spoke in a form That was exquisitely hers Then she heard yours And in you was an accent she spoke with ease Stretching and pitching her words in your way Making your cadence hers Changing her inflections Manipulating her speech very gradually until At the end, she was speaking a new Language Old words strung together in this new way that No one understood but you And now that language is shelved Tucked away and not spoken Even in her mind she does not use it And when someone speaks it to her again It will be all wrong, and She will stay quiet