I, Kenyan

Once riding somewhere in old Kenya

Heart filled, head filled with glee;

I saw a Kenyan

Keep looking straight at me.

Now I was young and may be small

But he was no whit bigger!

And when I smiled he poked out

His tongue and called me Kikuyu.

I saw the whole of Kenya

And all that fateful December;

Of all that happened there

That's all that I remember.