We
We who ate dried bread
Sipped in a little dirty water
We
Knew misery, looked at it
Not in a mirror but in
The face
We looked at it
Our heads humble bowed
Our hearts were cold
Our brains resigned
We
We who were eating dried bread of misery.
Emmanuel George Cefai
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