In My House

Many things in the world have changed, many things in Egypt have changed, and things have changed among the people that those who knew them see but do not know now.
And this house of mine is this house of mine. I did not change it and it did not change me, and no strange face appeared on it until it was gone. And everything that is new in it is a new bond that is strengthened from its first bonds, books that increase until it is difficult to move from one place to another, and memories that increase until they invade the world of the present, the world of fate, and the world of hopes!
Abbas Mahmoud Al-Akkad