A Photographer’s Journey
by Tengku Bahar
An Observer
of time and space
Seen through a rectangle
Simplified, broken down
into a single frame
A fragment of time
A decisive moment
One-hundred twenty-fifths
of a second
Perhaps more, sometimes less
Frozen in eternity
A Drifter
Alone but never lonely
in a world of trials and miracles
of people, places, memories
A light-tight box with an opening
Ever-faithful companion
A recorder of journeys
of those already made
of those in the now
of those that will come to be
A Spectator to life
The events that unfold
The people within it
Impartial yet understanding
Making sense through introspective reason
Capturing in black and white
Elucidating in shades of gray
The conclusions gathered
by the finality of a moment
of the stories contained within