Lady of the Nile

Lost in counting a second hand

Time to be frozen in broken glass

Fragments of each day fallen to sand

Each mirage seen be a window to ask

Does the sun truly set in deserts at dusk

Forces of nature and beast rest and wake

Camels that trek crusades with tusks

Waiting for Egyptian Queen to read our fate

Hiding our face to blend with the masses

If only she knew of true guilt

The eyes I can see under those lashes

Through crowds you shine; standing on stilts

No ill tidings of family be lost

Who dare betray that beautiful face

Your mind and body recovered in Mosque

Eyes on horizons be our oasis we chase

Hold on to her winds of the Sahara

Angel to all who see her in true form

Adventurer of all who enter tombs of Lara

May safety be new light of her dawn

Lovely Lady of the Nile

Water so clear in pattern of tide

No one dare enter or seek to defile

I hold your shimmering jewel of new path to find