we boys

knew only language and another language and another language;

all force beyond it, force applied to language driving ideas...
we were surrounded by its very results

you either doubt what you see
or question language you hear;

sometimes you don't see yet,
but you can take the temperature of the language
you're surrounded with

what we saw everywhere was an outcome:
words we spoke in turn questioned those who taught and trained us

NOT 'us' - but you and me and him and him and her
we were not yet a group,
everybody's voice was different:

we were not made to believe
while we tried to understand the ghosts within language