The old scribe, worn out by years of writing

down the thoughts of kings and masters, of stable hands and squires,

the relentless drives of the damned and the dead, finally

finds solace in a discreet request from the much loved

daughter of Pharaohs  to meet by the banks of the Nile as

she slips into the country unnoticed by spies

as she ends her long self imposed exile which had left

the country in tatters and the old scribe with no patron

or friend.