Searching For a Dragon Fly

Searching For a Dragon Fly, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.

i dont shoot flowers
i dont shoot insects
however hard i try
home sweet om
searching for a dragonfly
on the solicitous streets
of mumbai
spirituality humanity
that meets my eye
embedded in a camera
as shivas third eye
i dont shoot birds
kissing god and the sky
i dont shoot oceans
rivulets ponds lakes
or rivers running by
i shoot pain
as i see it
on the viewfinder
of my soul
of hopes gone dry
of man woman and child
living on a pig sty
begging for a new dawn
that a few coins wont buy
of the hijras
standing in their graves
when the time comes to die
a torrential tragedy
neither man nor woman
androgynous cry
victory over mind and matter
in a cats eye


dedicated to dragonfly and V my two good friends..