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Let me live

- Mahfuz Nabeen (Bangladesh)

Give me rice
Otherwise I will be a bandit
Give me rice
Otherwise I will shoot you
I will eat, I am hungry, I will eat
Bring me some food from the dustbin
If you can’t do that
Bring a glass of poison; I will eat and die
 
I do not read your constitution
I’m not afraid of your bloodshot eyes
I’m afraid of hunger
Give me food
I will eat, I am hungry, I will eat
Bring me some food from the dustbin
If you can’t do that
Bring a glass of poison; I will eat and die
 
The sun is red in your flag because I am bloodbath
Because I am calm, the green edge of Bengal is vast
I will beat hunger
Let me live
I will eat, I am hungry, I will eat
Bring me some food from the dustbin
If you can’t do that
Bring a glass of poison; I will eat and die.

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