1 January 2009

1 January 2009, a photo by firoze shakir photographerno1 on Flickr.

The first day
of the new year
I am online
me and my child
we both are doing fine
life has lost its shine
but I have no reasons to whine
for my mothers home
in distant Delhi I pine
begging at Bandra Bazar Road
hope and homelessness
a drawn battle line
the streets my singular solace
my spiritual shrine
where lives my maker
his act of compassion
divine
being poor
a Muslim woman
uneducated
despair and despondency
combine
searching
for myself in a crowd
a home that is not mine
breathlessness
beyond the finishing line