Hello, I am an Art student working on a film about the loss of language. I need some help translating my poem into Ibibio...can someone help me out? The script is pasted below. Thanks!!

" My tongue has been stolen
" As well as myself
" My mother tongue
" So I became an alchemist for the sake of my own identity

I lost my father in this language
I lost my youth
I lost myself
I will cause the loss of others
Words translated to sound translated to music translated to dance
Dance to mourn the loss of understanding
I danced as best as I could

I never asked to learn my language
So I learned regret in English
My voice is only comfortable in English
But English, is the only language I have ever lied to myself in.
Sometimes the truth tastes better in a different language.

words are the only thing that will not disappoint
even if they are lies, their meanings remain the same
It is hard to cry in a language you do not understand
I spent many years fanning the flames with my tongue
I had a dream
I was yelling at god in the mirror
and she yelled back
the world does not stop moving because someone has died

Easy to fall in love with but hard to love
This is what they call me
They also call me joy
there were many nights I almost drowned, but the rocks would not remain in my pockets


1. body language
2. love language
3. loss as a language
4. verbal language
5. physical language
6. paralingual language
7. pain as a language
8. semantic language
9. emotive language
10. untranslatable language

By the way the words fall out of my mouth you can tell there was never a home for it there
Have you ever mourned for the loss of something you never had
Mourned because it will remain lost

AdiEtuk:
Hello, I am an Art student working on a film about the loss of language. I need some help translating my poem into Ibibio...can someone help me out? The script is pasted below. Thanks!!

ifang ke ayem ikpe?

amjustme2:


ifang ke ayem ikpe?

I do not speak the language so I'm not sure what you're asking