What We Have To Do We Have To Do

What We Have To Do We Have To Do, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.

sometimes
shooting the soul
of photography
is important too
what we have to do
we have to do
a path that the
soul follows
the soul pursues
from a little child
to manhood
as it grew
calling
out the only
name
that it knew
from one
moharam
to another
ya hussain
a chant
imbue
through
the walls
of despair
as it reverberated
entered
into you
cleansing
holistically
with the power
of hussainiyat
as it flew

Hussain is Humanity
in all humility
I say this to you
I am as much a Shia
as much as you
are Christian
Hindu
or a Jew