******** Ode to Karachi******** Karachi will come out of its silence, gripped in fear where politics becomes the means to control its streets and businesses. #Karachi KARACHI whose streets are ruled and where hearts plays its beats gripped in fear and violence will one day scream for its freedom. In Karachi, when this happens neither the phone calls, or the old associations, or the slogans, or the murderous routines will hold that pain and its emotion . It will sweep all those whom have contributed towards its decadence and its destabilisation. #Karachi its such a sad and dismal state of affairs where the concept of politics is NOT to serve its inhabitants BUT to hold them hostage. Its not the #karachi we remember from our youth and childhood days and not that karachi that carries its references in the old literature. I miss that #Karachi of peace and lights where its corners did not produce mutilated bodies and violence but harmony and music. And its that #karachi, that carried the music from its shores to the landscape of snow in the North and to its deserts. It is that I miss I miss its cosmopolitan air; I miss its bazaars and shores; I miss its colour and love upon that canvas of peace. I miss myself. #Karachi In Karachi, where I grew up- you tainted it and disgraced it with your politics of hatred and violence, I will reclaim it back one day. #karachi that carried my being from its bazaars and noise where ever I went ; the colours of those days upon my skin YOU cannot eradicate. I miss all thousands who were murdered; the beautiful minds, the young souls, teachers, doctors, and all. Its you all I miss. #Karachi These careless whispers Aimless walks In your corners I miss And you my murderer I have not forgotten ...... #karachi where my blood has been spilled; where my livelihood was stolen; where my children have grown in fear; I will reclaim it back. Karachi where its shores had connected the oldest civilisation to the world and you distanced it in your murder and in your violence. And when I ran under the rainof bullets; and the body of a limbless child blown away it; you will never realise that lament. #Karachi
Posted on: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 20:05:41 +0000
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