Breathless

In this crowd of masked faces, survival itself is a burden today!
This face of mine bears only one mask — my name,
no second disguise exists.

I don't claim to be utterly simple; but terribly straightforward, that's true.
Even without scheming and plotting, I see myself losing constantly!
I understood later: to win in this city
takes a hundred percent cunning, scheming is essential.

Where even thieves are thieves, and saints — they're just more honorable thieves,
there I have only a few more days left, at most!

Well, I remain, because I must remain!
For the stomach's demands, like me,
so many people die daily.

You've kept no account of this, I know.
You've ignored the tears of sub-humans like us.

Why would you keep track? You've fallen to greed today!
So you're forgetting, while digging others' graves
you're digging your own!