It must have been
A little boy
Who wrote this note I found
Buried in antiquity
Way beneath the ground
And on it piled
Years of rock
And years of violent hate
That somehow would not ever
Erase our holy fate
“I write this in the first month
That Moshe just declared
There is a lamb tied to our bed
And I’m a little scared
“We’ll slaughter it
This evening
Despite the Mitzri’s power
They say that soon
We’ll leave this land
I’m waiting for the hour
“It’s been a turbulent few months
With plagues and death and doom
With darkness to our masters
Yet light in our room
And now Moshe has warned them
If they don’t let us free
Their firstborn sons
Will all become
Ancient history!
And somehow they don’t listen
And why?
I sure don’t know
Our masters seem to like us Jews
They blame it on Paroh
My parents, they asked Hosni
And Anwar said OK
‘Just take our gold and silver
Our clothes just haul away!’
“And now we’re slaughtering their lambs
I thought it was quite odd
They just stand by and smile as
We sacrifice their god!
“And Moshe seems to warn them
But Paroh makes no peep
He put on his pajamas
And then he went to sleep!
“My father told me stories
Of years they were so tough
Our tiny baby brothers
Who in the walls they’d stuff
“They took the work of Abba
And gave it to my Mom
Those nasty men like Gamal
And Yassir and Sadam!
“But now we all are laughing
At these once haughty men
We watched how they were stricken
Time and time again
“The blood, the frogs, the tiny lice
Crawled over them
And animals went wild
Indeed it was mayhem!
“And then it all went quiet
As animals were dying
And Paroh, he was pleading
But really he was lying
“So boils itched their bodies
And hail rained fire too!
And locust ate what there was left
From the escaping zoo!
“And then somehow
The lights went out
Blacker than the night
But for all of us in Goshen
My dear friend, there was light!
“And now we all have found out
That we’re about to leave
And yes a special present
We all shall soon receive!
“We’ll soon receive a Torah
To tell us how to live
And then Eretz Yisroel
Hashem to us shall give!
“So I’m not sure
If what you find
3,000 years from now
Will tell you this whole story
The where, the why, the how
“I saved some snippets
In this jug
And hid it in the ground
For those to find this story
When I am not around
“But I am sure
That you won’t need
The words that I have written
About how Paroh held us here
And then how he was smitten
“For they say we’ll
Get the Torah
Which will contain it all
And then you’ll make a Seder
At which you shall recall
“The years we spent in Egypt
And all our slavery
And every tiny detail
About our history
“And every single father
Will on the Seder night
Tell this special story
To their kids’ delight
“They’ll share a bit of matzoh
And eat some maror too
And tell them that it was this night
I was forged as a Jew!
“And if you see this tiny scroll
Or others of its kind
Or any other document
Perhaps that you shall find
”And artifacts of history
Behind the glass you’ll see ‘em
And ancient coins
And other proofs
Are good for a museum
“Look at them with some interest
But know there is much more
You’ll share it at the Seder
From dor to dor to dor!
For mother to her daughters
And a father to his son
Is really what we are about
When all is said and done
