Once upon a time in exotic Egypt <br />The sun burnt the Nile's cheek <br />As it flowed eternally through the valley <br />And spoke of divine mysteries <br />The golden Sahara listened silently <br />To the echoes of the centuries <br /> <br />The pyramids spoke of defying time standing tall proudly <br />Stories of kings and queens who bowed to time their enemy <br />But their names they spoke of carving into Egypt's face eternally <br />From Ramses, Hatshepsut, king tut to Cleopatra and Anthony <br />Their royal words sounding in Aswan Alexandria and Nubia <br /> <br />The keeper of ancient history homed god's letters to humanity <br />When Moses breathed life on Egyptian territory <br />And on Mount Sinai god spoke his message to him <br />When the holly family of Jesus and Mary escaped King Herod's army <br />Leaving Jesus' footprint in Sakha and in Matariya Mary's famed tree <br />And when Muhammad declared in Egypt forever peace lives <br /> <br />And so it flows the Nile a stream of fulfilled and unfulfilled destinies <br />On both its banks wise, sophisticated warm faces <br />Tell Egypt's story of continuity <br />And the Sahara that slept to the sound of the Nile's stories <br />Told its own stories of love and peace that maintain Egypt's prosperity <br />But all Egypt's stories start… once upon a time in heaven. <br />Once upon a time in Egypt<br /><br />Salma Sherif<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/once-upon-a-time-in-egypt-2/
