Sense Sonnet - Pumper

Piye

I am Piye, a Kushite king,
The first Black Pharoah on the throne.
Doing great temples was my thing.
Of course I did one of my own,
A pyramid at El-Kurru,
In what's now called Northern Sudan.
Tunnels 'neath the pyramid do
Lead to this mummy, once a man,
Now a reminder from the past,
That very few of humankind,
Once dead, do memories long last.
A few like me to future bind.

Inside my temple I will be
For the future to unearth me.