Firoze Shakir Poet - Frozen Time

Monday, March 7, 2011

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What caused the fire the real reason we will never know at all just a message of get the fuck out written on a burning wall , such is the apathy the inhuman treatment for the poorest now turned beggars as they grovel for aid as they crawl like vermin living on charity is what hurts most of all.

Was it a sabotage was it a builder politician nexus , a supari to get the land cleared who will tell it all , a system the actual truth will stall, red tape bureaucracy hurdles and soon the rains will fall.. breaking the spirit of these poor people simply because they are Muslims outsiders from Uttar Pradesh a thought by some to forget them once and for all.

As a beggar a poet of Mumbai I shot these pictures with weeping tears standing human souls like their wooden tin houses on a living graveyard sprawled ,a little child holding her broken doll, the holy scriptures the tazbi prayer beads all burnt to ashes mixed with the soil and all.

For the conniving politician the loss of a huge vote bank to keep him his party on the chair installed , he will now go out of his way to offer sops as relief cure all ..the benefactor a silhouette of lurking hope tall handsome and tall.

What I shot was the poetry of life's drama including the deathly pall. I pray to God such hard times on my worst enemy should never ever befall...