20 of 24 on the 24th February 2014: We are Alverston & Associates because of Steve Jobs (February 24, 1955 - October 5, 2011).

Language is grace

Makes us embrace

Far wider wingspans

Of tolerance and nonviolence.

Language is heritage

Erased with the decision

Of a generation

To avoid accents

Which

According to their rules

And regulations

Embarrass.

Teaching religions

Bypassing languages

Glitch ditches which

Prevent intellectual relations

Between the generations.

Doesn’t matter when kids

Roam about the house in childhood.

Homesickness settles when

Kids are adults 

Unable to interpret

Cultural nuances.

Parents seeking flights

To Indo-Pak and wherever

Three or four months out of the year

Just to hear a language that they themselves killed.

Originally released on Wednesday, June 1, 2011 by Alverston & Associates (we are because of Steve Jobs).