Idd Mubarak Muslim Beggar Woman

Idd Mubarak Muslim Beggar Woman, a photo by firoze shakir photographerno1 on Flickr.

The only person who never celebrates Idd back to back is the poor Muslim beggar woman I shoot after I shoot the Idd Namaz..

Idd Mubarak says the
Muslim beggar Woman
celebrating Idd on the kebside
rich poor the living dead
hidden sorrow within the hijab
within layered folds hide
man woman mullah
Islam
a great divide
the Jihad against Ignorance
taken for one big ride
a wound since generations
a wound open wide
Muslim women chattel
a commodity a plastic bag
biodegradable voice muffled
hands tied
only Allah her steering wheel
of a ramshackled human legs
as Guide
yes she was first a girl child
mother divorced after warming his
hearth as a bride
nothing but ripped flesh scars
her womanly shame
her womanly disgraced pride
many a nights soaking her
soul with molten tears she cried
she is husk blown by time and a bad tide
before she was born her spirit
within the amniotic fluid
had curled and died