Mother, are potatoes costly now?
Grandma gave us rice with gravy today
She saved the potatoes for brother
And fed them to him with butter
When he came back from school.
The baby cried all day today
Grandma said the milk was over
And she wouldn’t drink the rice water.
But I saw brother drinking milk
In the morning before he went to school.
Your cheeks are wet, please don’t cry,
And do not ask Grandma what I told you
For I cannot watch father hitting you again.
Mother, you told me I am three years old
But why can’t I walk like brother and sister?
I heard father say yesterday,
“If she is a cripple let her die.”
He said you burdened him with three girls
He would be happy if he could abandon us.
He said he would throw us out one day
Or take brother and Grandma to a distant land.
It scares me mother to stay at home
When you are away at work the whole day,
If father takes and leaves me far,
I would never be able to walk back to you...
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