"The Tower"

At night... against the clear night sky of the cosmopolitan city of Karachi....with the dusky red color spread over the horizon, probably from the magestic port lights.... while wandering in search of amusement.... one is struck by the beauty of old architechture that dwells in the shadows of the long forgotten interior Karachi....the grandeur and enigma of the "Tower " with its radiant dial luminescent and clear....visible from afar...catches you in your casual loitering and makes you look up at it in awe..... Ofcourse till the time that a dark figure clad in a long and heavy shawl appears from the shadows into the light.....scaring the beJesuz out of you.....for he is the nightly guard who is known to spring up on persons unawares..... dallying about in the so to speak wee hours of the night....without aim or destination....aka Loafers in this case myself and a couple of friends.

As i saw the structure i couldn't help but step out of the car and stare for a few seconds that felt like hours....the beauty of design and structure beheld in a trance like state...a reverie of thought, emotion and sight.....more felt than witnessed. The dark grooves, the etched geometric shape of a triangle encompassing a hexagon, the arches throwing shadows below and creating a perfect symetry in their distorted expression, the ooh so luminescent dial, ticking away to give the sense of time passing, reminiscing the age of Christianity, for the basic elements of design signify this much to an amateur eye like mine.....The rulers who left, the ruled who remain and will always remain. For we can break away from physical bondage but an anchor and a chain that holds our thoughts captive is not that easy a foe to face....let alone shake off. On such a marvel of beauty you will see that someone having the same bondage of thought and contemplation has written obscenity with a tool, not so justly used...a can of spray paint....i call this criminal....absolute injustice to the sentiment of art and culture. Trying to disfigure something that has stood the test of time, that brings ideas, thoughts and culture from the past and that will carry them into the future so that our children and maybe even their's can know who walked these grounds....and maybe understand beauty, goodness, art, culture and human designs beyond the boundries and limitations of religion be it one or the other.