The Egyptian Pyramids

• Daniel Chen, Grade 9
• Poetry
• 2008

The pyramids weren’t built with a single stone
Nor by a single mason
Both must be strong, tough and present
And both work together for the same reason

No stone can last alone
It will instead wear
The pyramids, a single mason can not build
But the pain he can’t bear

The officer kills the working labourer
With the whip he casts
For the labourer cannot haul the heavy stone
But with blood the pyramids lasts

Together in the thousands it holds
Through the centuries it stands
While the masons stand back together
Standing tall while looking from far lands