Maalesh  ya  Zahra

 

By Suzy Vidal

 

 

Slowly flows the River Nile

Sadly beats my heart in exile

The luscious date and mango tree

I surely shall no longer see

 

I walked along the streets of Cairo

Till that day without a morrow

My friends dispersed all over the globe

In search of a more peaceful abode

 

We were sent off without a dime

Adieu the country that was mine

The gentle breeze of Sham el Nessim

Has vanished with the call of the Muezzin

 

Of jasmine only remains the scent

Khamsin winds were not Godsent

Yet we dream of that faraway land

That pushed us out giving us a hand

 

Kasr-el-nil now has a motorway

You'll never see a Jew on the way

They did not want us anywhere

So I shall never go back there!