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. 

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