A MARKA
Marka, a mind, a body, a spirit and human
Still able to open his eyes
After war destroy his city
No command, No set moral
Marka now free
Free as bird that can fly up to the sky
But now Marka does not have any purpose
Any meaning in forgetable world
Wander and wander
From other side of the supermarket to other side of abandoned pool
From other side of burned school to other side of road
He wonder what he want to spend his last breath to it fullest
So he look around to every single angle of city he lives
Maybe he found something to hold
After more than million hour of exploring
He already done about the looking around
But
Not yet with one place
The tower on the highest skyscrapper
Unlimited Tower
Marka remember a quote,
“A clump of uncountable connected tower that can connect every single of us,”
“On family, on government, even on every angle of life around this world”
“A tower that always connected.”
In the end, no one use it anymore
Since Marka already cover every angle at it’s city,
Marka decided to climb the tower
With Marka’s climbing experience,
He climb to one step above
To other step above
On and on
After some of the times goes
Marka realized
Marka can not recognized his below anymore
Only black cloud like the surrounding of him.
Marka think if
He is already climb too high
Too high that he cannot track which step he pass before
Marka concluded that he cannot make it
To the top
Nor the bottom
Eventually, Marka became exausted with no food and water left
So Marka started to clinging at his position
The cold metal of the tower hit the cold metal from Marka’s arm
But Marka still hold the goal he had
To reach the bottom
To feel safety of closing eyes
So Marka climb down with his arm
One step to other step below
Unfortunately for Marka,
His luck already runs out
So he slipped his step
And reach the bottom immediately
While knowing that before he fall end
Maybe, just maybe
A little glimpse of luck that
the others never ever climb the tower
after seeing his body lies down there
In this Unlimited Tower
From the side of the road
Theme : Ambition
Script : Metaphor
—Alwaan Kamal Faqih—
