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The following is what I wrote right before I left for Egypt. I hope you like it...
"Man fears time,
and time pyramids..."
Hi everyone,
In a few hours I will be flying to Luxor, Egypt,
To start my grand tour down the Nile by "Karnak,"
Years after Poirot and Bette Davis,
For a dream that has haunted me for thousands of nights,
Of tracing the footprint of those greatest Pharaohs
From Menes, to Khufu, to Rameses II, to Hatshepsut...
And Tutankhamen, who died young but left a golden mask,
As well as the broken heart of the loving Ankhesenamen,
And to Cleopatra, who seduced Caesar and Antony, even though
She did not possess Elizabeth Taylor's beauty.
The dawn of great civilizations first illuminated the East,
From China, who has the longest continuous surviving ancient civilization,
To ancient India, who once gave the world a great savior at human's darkest time -- Sakyamuni,
And ancient Babylon, leaving us myth-surrounded legends around Mesopotamia,
And ancient Egypt, where Pharaohs co-existed with gods in that prehistoric era.
Though I'm not a learned Egyptologist like Howard Carter or Chompollion,
My love and passion for the land of Egypt is too profound to fathom,
And yet too shadowy to feel real as I have never been there,
But tomorrow afternoon I will be...in Thebes, now called Luxor by the Arabs,
Then all the way from Upper Egypt to Cairo and Alexandria.
When I see pictures of pyramids and of ancient Egyptian temples,
And when I see a papyrus painting with those hieroglyphic characters in cartouche,
I can't keep from crying for being small and mortal,
And can't stop being obsessed with death, afterlife, reincarnation and eternity.
Death has always been the theme of my thoughts,
As the gateway to a new life, a mystic terminal of deeds and karma.
I look forward to my rebirth in Egypt, during my 10 days there...
DHAWA |
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发表于 2007-1-11 18:50:05
