我的童年和對我爸的記憶，都已淹沒水底

「我成長的地方很富饒。我爸剛買下的時候，那塊地還是空的，但他用牛犁了地，然後在那兒種了很多莊稼，慢慢就把荒地改造了。那裡有很多我兒時的回憶。

那片地挨著河，有很多椰子樹。那些樹不屬於任何人，但感覺就像是我的。我爸在我五歲時去世了，他把地傳給了我。那片地是我唯一的財產，也是我的後路。

我在城裡當門衛，但常回去看我媽，給她帶錢。

20來歲時，我開始留意到河水在侵蝕土壤。每次回去，被水淹沒的都多一些，我眼睜睜看著卻無能為力。我們一直呆到水只距離房門五英尺的時候才搬走。

離開那天，我媽跟我說：『有一天你會體會到你爸為這片地付出了多少心血。』

這是最讓我難受的部分。那片地是我對我爸唯一的記憶，但現在我都不能給我的孩子們看了。我覺得淹沒在水下的不僅是我的財產，更是我爸的心血。」

（孟加拉國，達卡）

「The land where I grew up was very rich. The property was empty when my father bought it, but he plowed it with cows and grew many crops there. He built it up from nothing. I have many memories there as a child.

The land was next to a river. There were lots of coconut trees. The trees didn』t belong to anyone but they felt like my own. My father died when I was five years old and passed the land on to me. It was my only possession. It was my back-up plan.

I worked as a janitor in the city, but I always returned to visit my mother and bring her money.

It was in my twenties that I began to notice that the river was eroding the soil. Every time I returned, a bit more had fallen into the water. There was nothing I could do. We stayed until the water was five feet from our door.

On the day we left, my mother told me: 『One day you』ll realize how hard your father worked for this.』

And that』s the hardest part. The land was my only memory of my father. And now I can』t show it to my kids. I feel like it』s not just my inheritance that』s underwater, but all my father』s hard work.」

(Dhaka, Bangladesh)

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