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