• At dawn they returned home
    their soaky clothes torn
    and approached the stove
    their limbs marked by scratchers
    their legs full of wounds
    but on thier brows
    there was not a sign of despair

    The whole day and night just passed
    they had to brave the horrendous flood
    in the water all the time
    between bloated carcasses
    and tiny chips of tree barks
    desperately looking for their son’s
    albino buffalo that was never found

    They were born amidst hardship
    and grew up without a sigh or a complaint
    now they are in the kitchen, making
    jokes while rolling their cigarette leaves.