Ask what is yours, my servant

Do not stare at me with those eyes that seem to say

"You are nothing if you have nothing for me."

I am the streak  of cloud that clouds the smile in you

Today i promise not an extra bread -

Bread not baked in your oven of sweat and breath.



Yet you swore to serve your country and your countrymen

Today you avert your heart from your avowed service

Severing the tendons that hold us together as onefold

Ask what is yours, my servant

Yours through sweat and living breath.


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