Nefertiti

I was at the bar,

When she came,

And sat by me.

Our thighs grazed each other’s,

As she looked straight into my eyes,

Reading the criss- cross on my forehead.

You’ve been long dead, she said,

With a deadpan face,

Didn’t you know that?

I stumbled for words,

Floundering through memory’s,

Cobbled lanes.

Really, I asked, 

She didn’t answer straight, 

But looked at my eyes red.

It was then I remembered her name, 

The ‘she’ of my troubled dreams,

Nefertiti, from an ancient land.

Nefertiti maiden of Thebes,

Nefertiti Neferneferuaten, 

Didn’t know you had slayed me then!