Poem is about personal and cultural identity. Familiar metaphor of tongue used in novel way to show that losing one's language is like losing part of one's body. Note image of two tongues. Poet argues that you cannot use both together. To show how this works, Ms. Bhatt rewrites part of the poem in Gujerati, with Anglicized phonetic transcript to indicate sounds.
Form is well suited to subject.
For most readers these will be the other way around, while some, like her, will understand both. Phonetic transcript shows how a Glaswegian Scot might speak. The poem is set out in lines of two, three or four syllables, but these are not end-stopped. The poem seems puzzling on the page, but when read out aloud makes better sense. A Scot may find it easier to follow than a reader from further south.