Shooting Death Up Close

Shooting Death Up Close, a photo by firoze shakir photographerno1 on Flickr.

I am a photo blogger
a shia pandit
my name is Firoze
today is Bakra Idd
the sacrificial goat
a slit
a river gushing
on the floor
red blood froze
shooting death
up close
writhing
convolutions
convulsive
compulsions
bleeding prose
people waiting for their
turn on tips and toes
the living goat
watching all this
this is his destiny
he and his god knows
a pledge of Ismael
when he lay in repose
his father Ibrahim
eyes closed
such is the bounty of Allah
that the next sacrifice
for Islam
it was Hussain
that he chose
his throat cut
by a blunted dagger
in the hands of Shimr
Hussain
cleansing
a malaise
rose
a dastardly deed
under the hajis nose
eunuch collective silence
enclosed
the black page
in the history of Islam
Yazids thirst for power and revenge
through his supreme sacrifice
he exposed


“Shah ast Hussain, badshah ast Hussain Deen ast Hussain, deen panaah ast Hussain Sar daad, na daad dast dar dast-e-yazeed Haqu-e-binney la ilaahaa ast Hussain”

“King is Hussain, King of Kings is Hussain/ Faith is Hussian, Protector of Faith is Hussain/ He gave his head but not his hand in the hand of Yazid/ Verily, truth is but Hussain.”

on the soul of Ajmer
Kwajah Moinuddin Chishty composed .


yazidiyat is back as jehaddi terrorism
with a permit from the custodians
who this state of affairs
seriously do not oppose
kill be killed
the law of the jungle
I suppose
a thorn
puncturing the heart and soul
of the rose