Question

Who do you think the speaker is? Why? (grammar / point of view)

Indian Boy Love Song (#2)


I never spoke
the language
of the old woman

visiting my mother
in winters so cold
they could freeze
the tongue whole.

I never held my head
to their thin chests
believing in the heart.

Indian women, forgive me.
I grew up distant
and always afraid.

Answer 1

I think the speaker is an Indian boy who doesn't feel accepted because he isn't able to speak his mother's language. He's afraid because he doesn't feel accepted.