English

English breakfast tea
With milk early on a gray
Morning listening to English
Words and accents each distinct
To a place so insular their own
Speech defines their local
Perspective while foreign
Accents in English add
Cultural diversity to
A place which only
Seeks to remain
Uniquely the
Same as
When
They grew
Up there and
So the willingness
Of many English to opt
For less material gains in
Gadgets gewgaws fufahraws
In exchange for time to stop
Until they can catch up to
The past and make it the
Future where English
Ways remain and
Canute can hold
Up is staff and
Stop the tide
Rolling in to
An English
Shore,
Some corner
Of a foreign field
That is forever
Rupert’s own
England.