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| VERSES The Kampuchean Kid |
| THE KAMPUCHEAN KID (Code: VT-0002) Hunger Like an impatient rat Keeps gnawing at my ribs Nights and nights I lie in bed Trying hard to sleep Mother, where are you? Mother, where am I? The nuns came yesterday To give me a piece of bread It looked so good I could not bear to eat it So I kept it in my bed Mother, where are you? I want you to share it This morning when I awoke I reached out for my bread It wasn't there The rats had got it! I've waited and now I'm late Mother, where are you? Mother, where am I? Mother, I can't share it anymore I need your arms I need to cry (Of kids in war-torn Kampuchea - 1980) - Lynda B G Low - |
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