You Are Different Poem by Zyw Zywa

You Are Different



Falcons do not grab footwear
for their nest, not the slipper
that the Pharaoh gets served on his lap

.....He looks up and everyone
.....looks with him
.....at the falcon in the sky

It must be a sign
an assignment from heaven
and the search begins

.....The welfare of the entire nation
.....is at stake, the question
.....is: to find or to fall

The court moves from cottage to cottage
to see the women and the girls
all over the wide delta

.....The heavenly slipper fits at the foot
.....of the foreign Pale Face
.....the slave who is different

She had put it to dry
after washing clothes in the river
and shows the other one

Wednesday, August 14, 2019
Topic(s) of this poem: cinderella,migration
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
For Taoufik Didouh

Ahmose I expelled the Hyksos from the Nile Delta and then became Pharaoh in Thebes (from 1550 BC) . From 1540 he controlled the whole of Egypt.

Rhodopis ("Pink Face", "Pale Face")will undoubtedly have been bullied with worse abusive words than her nickname, but Strabo (Amaseia 64 BC - AD 24)has omitted them when he recorded the story under the title Rhodopis.

Collection "The migration"
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