NaPoWriMo 2018 - Day 24 (An Elegy for Ancient Egypt)

Today the challenge was to write an elegy with a sense of hopefulness. It should be noted that I'm not following the three phrases outlined at poets.org (see second link above).

An Elegy for Ancient Egypt

Land of the River Nile
Ebbing and Flowing
Flooding and Receding
Driving daily life.
Land of pharoahs and tombs,
Pyramids and Great Sphinxes
gods and temples.
Land of mummies; afterlife
Hieroglyphics, Rosetta Stone.
Land where a god daily traveled
across the sky.
These are some of the things I know.

Over centuries,
things have changed
Grave robbers came
Sphinx nose crumbled
Wars waged
Pharaohs fell.

But still knowledge remains.
And while those times are passed by
You still catch imagination's eye.

Dams built
River swelled
Temples encroached
Humans prevail
Temples moved - saved.

You followed Earth's patterns for your life
We change the Earth how we like.

What more can we learn?
What mysteries
Hide in your temples,
Tablets, tomes,
Pyramids, Valley of the Kings?
What more secrets can we know?

I hope to make it to Egypt one day,

Sharon