I need your help, dear,
For survival more than ever.
I am in fear with mercury crossing
Forty-eight-degree celsius.
I am here at Titilagarh, Balangir,
Odisha, India, and I fear
To fight with this temperature.
No water-body but concrete jungle
Everywhere here.
I am a small creature,
If you so like forget me,
And leave me to my luck
On my land and with the language
Of my mother.