(C) Copyright 1997, Mahmoud A. El-Gamal.

I said: ``why don't you join me'', and he said: ``I shall do so''.

Then as we walked he asked me: ``are you sure this is the road?''

I said ``I read the road signs!''; he said ``but they are in code''.

I asked: ``how would you know that?'', and he said: ``I am the one

who wrote them for my journey back after I've been long gone''.

I said: ``if you are going home, then you should lead me there'',

he said: ``I came to guide, not lead, are you still not aware?:

``The road signs are encoded so that only you can read,

and my job is to teach you how to lead without a lead.

``The guide must always follow the new travelers on the way;

to learn anew the glory of promotion of the clay.

``By sharing your bewilderment as various roads you roam,

I taste again the sweetness of returning to {\it our} home''.