Illustrated motivational poetry drawn from the first poems of Caroline Nderitu
Play your drum
No one else can play it for you
No one else should
For only you know the tune
Only you has the hands for it
Play your own drum
Don't worry
How well others play
Often, we are so busy
Listening to others
Play their drums
That we have no time
To play our own
Shall the farmer
Use the surgeon scalpel
Shall the baker
Bake in the tailor's machine
Shall the nurse
Inject with the teacher's chalk
Play no other drum but yours
And play it well
And in time
We shall all dance
To your drum
Excerpt
One way to be a fighter
Is to be a writer
This way pen and paper
Becomes your shield and spear
To make known far and near
Your true joy and inner fear
And many will learn your needs
And what they need to heed
One way to be a fighter
Is to be a writer
Don't be insulting and rude
But don't be too good
Just say what to say you have
It pays to have the nerve
Pour out your heart and mind
And results, results you will find
