MAASAILAND'S OWN SCARLET PIMPERNEL
A statesman to the core His defence of the red culture Made us feel, made us believe With his peals of laughter Reverberating Echoing in our hearts His oratory eloquence An unmatched work of pure art Our very own Cicero He strode the Kenyan political scene Like a mammolith And strode through our lives Like a Greek Collosus Leaving eternal footprints He was, and is a Churchill A defender of the defenceless Oh! How he took it for us all An impregnable shield of immeasurable strength and tenacity The spear of the Maa nation He is a pillar that cannot be broken Yet even after his demise They still lay low like an envelope At the mention of his name From the ranges of Wanga in Samburuland Down to the wide plains of Arusha Our tears will forever flow. For William R. Ole Ntimama.