Mohammed Ali
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Notes: He was truly a great man, whose contributions to humanity outweigh any negatives. He was boastful, and proud, but with the lessons of life grew, he was neither born Christian or lived Muslim, he lived as a God, here on earth, and cared for all people, but more so for the downtrodden. This transcends all religions; he was in the end, a poet and a humanitarian.
If only one of his fans had such wisdom!
Mohammed Ali
Cassius Clay
The Legend
He was not a humble man
Everything he did, was big and grand
He taunted and barbed with poetic flair
His opponents he angered
Entertainment in the air
He was a legend, bigger than man
A champion in the ring
He often took a heroic stand
Breaking barriers of narrow minds
He defined his style in his own time
His greatest feats were not title wins
Nor his taunts and bragging sins
Inside there was a more humble man
Who stood for the downtrodden in troubled lands
Full of humility he still could sting like a bee
In the end he floats away
A softer man, of a fighter’s heart
So shed a tear, for this complex legend
Whose humble beginnings’
The butterfly brought home to his roots
God brought him back to his beginning
Cassius Clay he was… and now lives in eternity
Freed not by name
But by convictions... of his
Good deeds
Copyright © Arthur Vaso | Year Posted 2016
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