No Escape ...

No Escape ..., a photo by firoze shakir photographerno1 on Flickr.

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muslim beggar woman
the usual land scape
be it lucknow mumbai
hyderabad
from her impoverished
destiny - no escape
standing begging for alms
in a funereal drape
hidden beneath her hijab
her pain her sorrow
her life in bad shape
from the cauldron of
her karmic calamity
a few crumbs scrape
her dreams
like a bunch
of sour grapes
slits for eyes
at a stony wall
of silence
agape