i watched and you did too
we all shared a common silence
on our part we were like frightened cats
and they slithered like a dark snake
into the deepest camps of our times
i watched with you
so stand by me as we tell this story
that soon enough when our children mock us
i will be in a little-r dread
you stand by me
we were there, alive and strong
and by evening we scampered into the left over bars
and drunk the remaining beers we were allowed
got arrested as we sung our drunkness back home
wasted and stinking like the madmen of kampala
we let them get away with it
gave them all it took to tear our city apart
as they made it a forest
a jungle too thin for chimpanzees
kampala we shall mourn you
as our children walk miles to find airtime
and conversation becomes a major crime
we shall mourn you
as our children scorn at us with stones
we are watching, as it slips out of our hands
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