The City Of My Birth

The City Of My Birth, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.

my grand father
daoga nabban saab
of kankar kua
pata nala
imliwali gali
a lost moment
one of these
related to
poet mir anees
i was born
on his dehleez
frame freeze
thanking
the lord
for his gift
my grand mother
nazmi begum
in prayers
on bent knees
my poets mind
a muhafiz
of old sepia
toned
scanned
memories
lucknow
the city
of my birth
my parentage
my heritage
lying
beneath
a decrepit
doomed
debris
filtered
images
seen
through
the bioscope
to some degree
a pucca
mumbaikar
caught
in the web
of my ancestry
am i what i am
am i what i am not
manacled chained
to my karmic destiny