You are Gaelic
beautiful, mystical,
lyrical, recognizable,
incomprehensible,
not easily translated
Yet I love to listen
to your rhythms with
heart, soul, eyes
you are a romance
language I can always
listen to, try to read,
knowing no matter
how much I read and
hear, I could never
be truly fluent in you
Ponderable polemics, poetic 