我虽然住在加拿大，享受温哥华的舒适生活，但是我心里至今对我最热爱的国家――埃及牵挂不下。我还在努力去埃及生活、工作，正在请埃及的大使帮我联系去开罗大学或艾滋哈尔大学中文系任教。
从小就向往埃及，记得多年前，我住在北京中日友好医院附近的芍药居，有一晚上做梦梦见自己到了埃及开罗，但住在开罗的中日友好医院附近。梦醒后觉得好荒唐，怎么到了埃及会住在中日友好医院附近呢？说明埃及冥冥之中可能是我前几世的祖国。
2006年2月我终于亲自去埃及旅游了，乘坐尼罗河豪华游轮，游遍了尼罗河沿岸所有的美轮美奂、惊世骇俗的千年古迹。处处受到明星般的待遇。我的导游都惊叹我对古代埃及文明如此精通，更惊讶所有埃及人都要问他我是谁，并且怀疑我是法老转世。所以导游判断我一定和埃及有缘。
以下是我去埃及的那天晚上，去首都机场前写的英文诗，发给了我国外的朋友们，深深表达了我对埃及的热爱。
说实话，与中国、埃及等文明古国相比，加拿大没有历史，没有文化。但是论生活水平，和埃及相比，加拿大可以算是天堂了。但是我不是一个嫌贫爱富之人。我朝思暮想回到尼罗河畔去，回到金字塔下，回到沙漠里去，回到地中海去――我只有在那里才会觉得生命的精彩！
"Man fears time,
and time pyramids..."
In a few hours I will be flying to Luxor, Egypt,
To start my grand tour down the Nile by "Karnak,"
Years after Poirot and Bette Davis,
For a dream that has haunted me for thousands of nights,
Of tracing the footprint of those greatest Pharaohs
From Menes, to Khufu, to Rameses II, to Hatshepsut...
And Tutankhamen, who died young but left a golden mask,
As well as the broken heart of the loving Ankhesenamen,
And to Cleopatra, who seduced Caesar and Antony, even though
She did not possess Elizabeth Taylor's beauty.
The dawn of great civilizations first illuminated the East,
From China, who has the longest continuous surviving ancient civilization,
To ancient India, who once gave the world a great savior at human's darkest time -- Sakyamuni,
And ancient Babylon, leaving us myth-surrounded legends around Mesopotamia,
And ancient Egypt, where Pharaohs co-existed with gods in that prehistoric era.
Though I'm not a learned Egyptologist like Howard Carter or Chompollion,
My love and passion for the land of Egypt is too profound to fathom,
And yet too shadowy to feel real as I've never been there,
But tomorrow afternoon I will be...in Thebes, now called Luxor by the Arabs,
Then all the way from Upper Egypt to Cairo and Alexandria.
When I see pictures of pyramids and of ancient Egyptian temples,
And when I see a papyrus painting with those hieroglyphic characters in cartouche,
I can't keep from crying for being small and mortal,
And can't stop being obsessed with death, afterlife, reincarnation and eternity.
Death has always been the theme of my thoughts,
As the gateway to a new life, a mystic terminal of deeds and karma.
I look forward to my rebirth in Egypt, during my 10 days there...
01/30/2006
从小就向往埃及，记得多年前，我住在北京中日友好医院附近的芍药居，有一晚上做梦梦见自己到了埃及开罗，但住在开罗的中日友好医院附近。梦醒后觉得好荒唐，怎么到了埃及会住在中日友好医院附近呢？说明埃及冥冥之中可能是我前几世的祖国。
2006年2月我终于亲自去埃及旅游了，乘坐尼罗河豪华游轮，游遍了尼罗河沿岸所有的美轮美奂、惊世骇俗的千年古迹。处处受到明星般的待遇。我的导游都惊叹我对古代埃及文明如此精通，更惊讶所有埃及人都要问他我是谁，并且怀疑我是法老转世。所以导游判断我一定和埃及有缘。
以下是我去埃及的那天晚上，去首都机场前写的英文诗，发给了我国外的朋友们，深深表达了我对埃及的热爱。
说实话，与中国、埃及等文明古国相比，加拿大没有历史，没有文化。但是论生活水平，和埃及相比，加拿大可以算是天堂了。但是我不是一个嫌贫爱富之人。我朝思暮想回到尼罗河畔去，回到金字塔下，回到沙漠里去，回到地中海去――我只有在那里才会觉得生命的精彩！
"Man fears time,
and time pyramids..."
In a few hours I will be flying to Luxor, Egypt,
To start my grand tour down the Nile by "Karnak,"
Years after Poirot and Bette Davis,
For a dream that has haunted me for thousands of nights,
Of tracing the footprint of those greatest Pharaohs
From Menes, to Khufu, to Rameses II, to Hatshepsut...
And Tutankhamen, who died young but left a golden mask,
As well as the broken heart of the loving Ankhesenamen,
And to Cleopatra, who seduced Caesar and Antony, even though
She did not possess Elizabeth Taylor's beauty.
The dawn of great civilizations first illuminated the East,
From China, who has the longest continuous surviving ancient civilization,
To ancient India, who once gave the world a great savior at human's darkest time -- Sakyamuni,
And ancient Babylon, leaving us myth-surrounded legends around Mesopotamia,
And ancient Egypt, where Pharaohs co-existed with gods in that prehistoric era.
Though I'm not a learned Egyptologist like Howard Carter or Chompollion,
My love and passion for the land of Egypt is too profound to fathom,
And yet too shadowy to feel real as I've never been there,
But tomorrow afternoon I will be...in Thebes, now called Luxor by the Arabs,
Then all the way from Upper Egypt to Cairo and Alexandria.
When I see pictures of pyramids and of ancient Egyptian temples,
And when I see a papyrus painting with those hieroglyphic characters in cartouche,
I can't keep from crying for being small and mortal,
And can't stop being obsessed with death, afterlife, reincarnation and eternity.
Death has always been the theme of my thoughts,
As the gateway to a new life, a mystic terminal of deeds and karma.
I look forward to my rebirth in Egypt, during my 10 days there...
01/30/2006
