Chameleon , December 12, 1995.
(C) Copyright 1997, Mahmoud A. El-Gamal.
``Nay, indeed they are in confusion of a new creation''.
(translation of the meaning of a verse of the Holy Qur'an)
They say I don't belong,
and say that it is wrong
to tamper with the light.
They say it isn't right
to be able to live,
a life of take and give
with those whom they despise,
a master of disguise.
But they do not know all;
they know not how my soul
(the part that is my best)
can never find its rest:
since it has learned to find
the tyrant and the kind
within its outward form,
it knows there is no norm.
So I keep changing still,
and they'll hate me until
one day they come to know
the secrets that I saw,
and learn to curb their rage
as they see how they change.