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The Mullahs Last StandOriginally uploaded by firozeshakirphotographerno1
Militant Islam has nothing to show
Misplaced martyrdom sheer bravado
Muslims killing Muslims
as they come to blows
born as friends die as foes
a fiendish thorn bleeding the rose
all around devastation
more and more
as sectarian hate and animosity grows
right under the mullahs nose ..
silence eunuched shame
that wont oppose
blindfolded from
besieged mosques
turned into terror dens
I suppose
a [...]
Posted at: July 8th, 2007 - 12:51 am - Number of Comments » 0
Old Lucknow
A dying thought
behind the curtains
you can spot
tehzeeb adab
reclined in the dalan
on a cot
as they
give way to
modernity
die and rot
pitched battles
as shia sunnis
that they fought
a few deaths here
a few deaths there
is all they got
politics of power
sectarian violence
brings religion
to naught
the poor
the underprivilged
their unchanging lot
the azan silenced
in a gunshot
curfew shoot at sight
like flies they swat
a sinister plot
to defame [...]
Posted at: May 24th, 2007 - 2:05 pm - Number of Comments » 0
