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The water falls … called time


“Are you religious” asked her…. a difficult question in a place like this i thought… “who created the water, why is the water falling down” asked my friend Tawfiq……and i started thinking if this is just a coincidence every body is becoming philosophical or is it some old witch doctor’s spirit still floating around Wli’s water fall putting all these questions in our minds……It was a beautiful place, a big water fall i havent seen that big before in my life, like an amphitheater, the mountain covering the three sides and the stage is hazed with water actors playing their final acts of martyrdom,happily charging towards their own death with a brutal conviction of doing the right thing……..Sitting alone after a while away from my friends and seeing the same water fall from a distance, i entered into my usual trance state into the world of symbols, the water was not “water” anymore, but the never ending “time” passing, the lake becoming my martyred desires, the foggy mist surrounding the falls becoming all my “old memories” though fading and reminding me to forget all the past but at the sametime becoming an immortal being in their own selves…..and like a fairy sitting on the cloud of memories, she, my goddess Aurora appeared from within the falling “time falls” and sat beside me on the bench of “thoughts” i was sitting….first silent, then asking why I have to travel so hard all within myself in pursuit of unattainable dreams….reminding me of me being a small character of a great play being played by gods and warning me of keeping desires for a goddess may make other gods jealous and revengeful…..a big thunder….as if lightening has fallen on me……i saw my self awake again in the real world, half hanging on a branch of tree, with my elbow bleeding blood and Tawfiq my friend asking me if I am OK…….i found my self again, on the midway of an even bigger water fall among the thickest African forests…..Perhaps the god Zeus did heard us and became jealous i thought, and smiling at my crazy world of reality and symbols started trekking again…………

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2 Comments

  • Anonymous

    it may be aurora herself and not the zeus, she might would have wanted u to wake up and look at her with all her flaws and beauty in ur complete senses because something agreed upon in trance will not last.
    as u know things promised and desired in full conviction of a right mind tend not to last. much less a godess worshiped in dreams.

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