Abdel-Nasser granting Salah Jahin the state award

To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the revolution, Salah Jahin wrote an elegy for "a friend of mine, the love of my life," a Nasser who remains anonymous making his presence all the more intimately felt. In the poem the speaker is a 20-year-old "old man," as white-haired and tired out by national struggle as an octogenarian. It is the friend who taught the 20-year-old to struggle in the first place and the inspiration he provides that keeps him going