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Where Is the Pharaoh's Toys

I have seen the formation
Of ancient lands
I have seen the creation
Of ancient hands

Pyramids
That soar to the sky
Here amid
Temples majestic and high

I have seen
Wonderful things
Tombs and scenes
Of ancient kings

I have seen huge blocks of stone
Cut by hand of flesh and bone
Fit in place for reasons known
To the architect alone

Each stone block from the quarry
Has a structure to help build
Each chisel cut tells a story
Of a mason’s guild

I have seen towering obelisks
With finely chiseled hieroglyphics
And ancient golden relics
Like toys in the attic

I have seen ancient mummies
The walking living dead
Take care or you’ll become these
Walking around instead

Dinner I have eaten
With pharaohs and kings by many names
And I have beaten
Them at their many games

I have sat on the temple steps
In the shadow of a large mastaba
I chatted with the great Amenhotep
And the gods Isis, Anubis, Thoth and Ra

They told me I could become a god
If I live and died in the manner of a king
I thought that was a little bit odd
For I came here wanting nothing

Tomorrow we go off to fight
The empire of Kadesh
If you come, you will see some sights
That you will never forget

I saw the battle of Kadesh
Now written about on the temple walls
I saw the battle in the flesh
Now celebrated in the temple halls

I watched the battle and from what I saw
Neither side won the war
From my standpoint the battle was a draw
But the Pharaoh will celebrate a win evermore

Pharaoh Ramses lived to the ripe old age of around ninety two
He outlived a lot of his hundred children and many wives
He’s remembered as Pharaoh Ramses the Great who
Built many monuments and revitalized the Egyptian’s lives

When they found Pharaoh Ramses the Great’s body
They found no silver or gold
Only the great king’s mummy
Thousands of years old

The archeologists all made a great noise
Where was all the silver and gold?
Where was all the old man’s toys?
That the grave robbers stole and sold

A lot of his stuff is still out there
In Egyptian antique stores
And Egyptian homes and country fairs
To get something you could spend a lot for sure

Nowadays Ramses is lying in state in the Cairo Museum
And men and women and girls and boys
All flock to the museum to see him
And Tutankhamen’s wonderful toys

Copyright © Jeff W. Watson | Year Posted 2021

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