Arabia

Long, long ago,
When Egypt was still
A British Colony,
A chap wrote a trilogy
About some Christian Copts,
Then, the intellectual elite
Of the Arab World,
Lamenting Arabia's fate.

"Once, our Arab Nation
Had a great, free culture,
A shining symbol to the world,
Dominating Spain and
The entire Mediterranean area,
And now we live like desert rats
Under the yoke of a colonial power.
What are we to do?"

Replied Doctor N.:

"Let's urge the British
To bring the cockpit of Europe,
Some of their intellectual elite,
To Palestine, into the Jerusalem area,
Where the great Jew, Jesus, our
Son of God, once gave his message,
And let his people,
Our cousins, the Jews,
Have a small area as a homeland.
This, will stir our Arabs up,
Rip them out of their lethargy,
And, perchance, return them
To a new glorious, enlightened future
Like the splendor - lost so long ago."

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2006 Alfred Charasz