Man Of Salt

They say we ate in bowls Make of clay from our yard They say we ate only rice and salt Because no one gave us food They say we would have died One by one if mother would not Have begged before the temple Time was running short and cruel They say we were all lazy people Taken birth from a lazy womb Where from blood flowed slowly Some of us drank the blood And survived rather miraculously They say we will die before our deaths Before our father falls into a ditch When he will come from work in The dark drunk and scared of darkness They say the truth and I believe them