Together We Started Poem by Hannington Mumo

Together We Started



Young, we started life together but fate forked us separate ways:
Some folks continued while others dropped out at the elementary.
On and on we were done with the competitions of the basic days;
Andrew became a schoolmaster and Aggrey a sly entrepreneur,
Augustine became a man of science treating and mending the sick.
And I became an astute tinkerer of prose and a weaver of rhymes.
I still wish to know what became of the boys we called Peter and Dick…

Tuesday, February 10, 2015
Topic(s) of this poem: life
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
Recalling the chaps with whom we primary-schooled.
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