President Festus Gontebanye Mogae

Decorate our ever pursuits of democracy and love of man
You cherished the human condition and cared for the lesser breeds
Guided as it were by that inner richness
Of a rare composure and steadfastness true
For all these never allowed your position of power
To be a humdrum of useless expectations or arrogance
Or some empty rhetorics feathered in pomp or vain-gloriousness

You upheld the ethos of equality and human dignity
Before the law knowing that inside our skins
We are all the same or alike or equal
Or that to rule a riotous nation
Is but a suffocating powder keg and a paralysis
Nor have you ever camped in the shadows
Of the trivialities of the power of corrupt, wealth seekers
You floated not with the money class
That ignored the welfare of their fellow folks
And trimmed their pockets aplenty