An ancient Egyptian love song
All night and day
In every way
I long for your love.
No sleep at all,
Staring, forlorn,
At the sky above.
It’s you that I dream about,
Your face’s what I want to see,
Waking tired every night,
Wishing you were here with me.
Your smiling face,
Glorious grace,
Brings life to my heart.
Only your voice
Makes me rejoice,
Feels like a new start.
It’s you that I dream about,
Your face’s what I want to see,
Waking tired every night,
Wishing you were here with me.
No one else can touch your soul,
None adores you like I do,
Without you I am not whole,
There is no one else for you.
Simple, but it makes me feel that deep within, the ancient Egyptians were just like us. In a recent lecture I held about Sex and Erotics in ancient Egypt (no Egyptologist ever had such an eager audeince, I think :o)), I think I managed to persuade everyone that in love, the Egyptians may have been way more advanced than we are - the preserved wisdom texts and autobiographies, which give the morality of the time, sex is a private matter of the pair - homo- or heterosexual, and all that matters is mutual consent, and, to my astonishment (this is something I discovered a few weeks ago), also relatively equal social position of the partners (because it's hard to resist your boss if the job you have is the only one available...) Many, many today's societies have tonnes to learn from the ancient Egyptians in matters sexual...
In every way
I long for your love.
No sleep at all,
Staring, forlorn,
At the sky above.
It’s you that I dream about,
Your face’s what I want to see,
Waking tired every night,
Wishing you were here with me.
Your smiling face,
Glorious grace,
Brings life to my heart.
Only your voice
Makes me rejoice,
Feels like a new start.
It’s you that I dream about,
Your face’s what I want to see,
Waking tired every night,
Wishing you were here with me.
No one else can touch your soul,
None adores you like I do,
Without you I am not whole,
There is no one else for you.
Simple, but it makes me feel that deep within, the ancient Egyptians were just like us. In a recent lecture I held about Sex and Erotics in ancient Egypt (no Egyptologist ever had such an eager audeince, I think :o)), I think I managed to persuade everyone that in love, the Egyptians may have been way more advanced than we are - the preserved wisdom texts and autobiographies, which give the morality of the time, sex is a private matter of the pair - homo- or heterosexual, and all that matters is mutual consent, and, to my astonishment (this is something I discovered a few weeks ago), also relatively equal social position of the partners (because it's hard to resist your boss if the job you have is the only one available...) Many, many today's societies have tonnes to learn from the ancient Egyptians in matters sexual...