Ramesses Ii, Remembered Still

No raised pinnacle marked the place No pure white limestone shining Where Ramesses slept looked commonplace to foil the robbers scrying. Yet he had moved the earth and sky this pharaoh disdained all rivals. His bounty buried beneath the sand portrayed a life beneath blue skies his star encrusted tomb ethereal his Ka rising from Death’s hand. The hills of Thebes his place of rest and beneath him his father lay amongst the great he’d be the highest his battle standards on display. He ruled with iron hand on staff as a Godhead he was portrayed. Most mighty and acclaimed, no man was he, who felled the Hittite chaff; beneath his chariots wheels flayed the denizens of Egypt’s land. Worshiped was he in temples true his semblance graces Abu Simbel with eyes wide o’er lake so blue his gaze belays the infidels. Beside him she, Nefertari laid claim to a sacred place held above all others his wife most renowned for her beauty a love to last through time and space may all true hearts pay such tariff.