Lingo

Common as raindrops, innumerable as sand…
Old Babylon’s tongues bred throughout every land.

Loanwords & calques & idiom & dialect.
Differentiations upon each known subject.

A Janus word is least of what misconceives us.
Communicating words cleaves us & cleaves us.

Phrases in the billions & words ever the more.
Then there are poets who take words to fly & soar.

More meanings in language than ever one can learn.
Yet, for understanding each other, we all yearn.