Monday, November 1, 2021

Restoration

Such amazing remains of a body of flesh
Once buried deep in the earth, desiccated
Ancient, fragile, a body shouldn't still be
With computer modeling, now refreshed
Life once lost, sorrowfully, now celebrated
A body made new, saved from history's abyss
Her body will never again take any breath
But we can at last see her, in all her beauty
We can understand her time and humanity
Through her features and preserved anatomy

Her name: Lady Rai
She served Ahmose-Nefertari
And was mother of a king Amenhotep I