"I am gently floating...
My curved and polished bow
Slicing swiftly through the sea..."
Hhmmbb Hhmmbb Hhmmbb Hhmmbb...
"There is no wind this day...
And so my heart beats,
Slowly...
To the thunder, of the drum..."
Hhmmbb Hhmmbb Hhmmbb Hhmmbb...
"Pain shoots up my spine
As an oarsman falls to the whip,
The drum, doesn't miss a beat...
My sails are long since cut away..."
Hhmmbb Hhmmbb Hhmmbb Hhmmbb...
"I now wear them as a canopy...
The sun is relentless...
It bears down upon me
With the force, of a mighty hammer..."
Hhmmbb Hhmmbb Hhmmbb Hhmmbb...
"Threatening to crack my decks...
To splinter masts and spars...
I heave a great sigh
As I crest the breaking tide..."
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I have held kings of Scotland..."
Hhmmbb Hhmmbb Hhmmbb Hhmmbb...
"And emperors of Rome...
Saints and barbarians...
Knights and huguenots...
I have witnessed the dawn of an era..."
Hhmmbb Hhmmbb Hhmmbb Hhmmbb...
"And the dusk of an empire...
The drum, didn't miss a beat...
I have seen the waxing of the sun...
And the waning of the moon..."
Hhmmbb Hhmmbb Hhmmbb Hhmmbb...
"I have tasted the blood of merchants...
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My memory eternal..."
Hhmmbb Hhmmbb Hhmmbb Hhmmbb...
"And my names
Innumerable...
As I recall this my life
I am drowned, in a flood of memories..."
Hhmmbb Hhmmbb Hhmmbb Hhmmbb...
"An ocean of faces swims before my eyes...
All their names, every name...
Each of their words, every word..."
Hhmmbb Hhmmbb Hhmmbb Hhmmbb...
"Their strengths, their weaknesses...
Their flaws, And their foibles...
Their desires and their aspirations...
They have displayed fear and treachery..."
Hhmmbb Hhmmbb Hhmmbb Hhmmbb...
"As well as courage and benevolence...
I have often wondered about death...
What it might be like to succumb
To the ever beckoning waves..."
Hhmmbb Hhmmbb Hhmmbb Hhmmbb...
"I cannot eternally forestall this...
To do so...
Would be too despair..."
Hhmmbb Hhmmbb Hhmmbb Hhmmbb...
"And this, I am not prepared to Do...
For I carry the lives of slaves...
Slaves in the eyes of the merchants...
Who dare bear the title of man..."
Hhmmbb Hhmmbb Hhmmbb Hhmmbb...
"The ones who name these men animals...
The man who fell beneath the whip...
Is a warrior...
Crippled by the savage blows..."
Hhmmbb Hhmmbb Hhmmbb Hhmmbb...
"In his country...
he was Mwalimu wa