Oh to be Back in Egypt...

By Ginger Strivelli

Oh to be back in Egypt… in March when it’s not yet too warm
When the biggest crowds of tourists have yet to swarm
To be the first through the gate just after sunrise
Standing all alone gazing up into the ancient Sphinx’s eyes

To sit atop a camel on a sea of sparkling sand below
Riding along in the great pyramid’s mystical shadow
To sail down the River Nile watching the birds fly
Like people have done for thousands of years gone by

To look up into the Sun God Ra’s golden shining orb
As He sets over the Giza plateau, a mystic sight to absorb
To sit watching for the moon Goddess Isis to appear
With her veil of stars adorning her luminous sphere





Oh to be back in Egypt… under Saqqara’s sky as blue as lapis
Wandering by the step pyramid and through the mastabas
To travel through the villages along the river Nile
As everyone greets me with ‘welcome to Egypt’ and a smile.

To ride through Cairo in fearless driver’s car
And say ‘take me to the Museum and then to a bazaar’
Trying to fit the most sight seeing into each and every minute
Because just a week in Egypt isn’t long enough of a visit


To sip Karkady as I shop for trinkets and babbles to pack
To remind me of Egypt, until I can some day get back
To be up late in the hotel planning the next day’s excitement
With so much to see, so many ways for so little time to be spent

Oh to be back in Egypt….once again… in the spring
To once again get to savor seeing and doing everything
That was such an adventure the first time I got to go
To repeat again that magical trip that I treasured so.

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