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The Greatest Silence

Though I now lie silent
Passive as the picture
Of me on your walls,
This silence makes you deaf
And my absence shed no tears.


It was just the other day
I wrestled with an alligator;
And tussled with a mighty whale;
With bravery I handcuffed lightning...
A hero I have thrown thunder in jail, 
Without mercy murdered a rock,
Before I brutally injured a stone.
I hit a brick and sent it to hospital
So mean I made medicine sick.


I am the part
You won't recognize
But get used to me:
Black, confident and cocky
My name, not yours;
My religion, not yours;
My goals, my own
Get used to me.


I said
I was the greatest,
Not the smartest.


    THIS POEM HAS BEEN WRITTEN TO CELEBRATE THE LIFE OF THE LATE AND GREAT MOHAMMED ALI: THE WORLD'S GREATEST BOXER.
      SAVE FOR STANZA ONE,THE REST ARE LARGELY BASED ON HIS OWN WORDS.

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Connie Marcum Wong Date: 6/6/2016 9:35:00 AM He was a man larger than life. I met him once on a flight of mine he was on with his wife. All of first class was aware of his presence in a favorable way. A great loss for us, a great gain for heaven! A sweet tribute my friend! #7. ;) Login to Reply Messoh Vincent Date: 6/6/2016 12:01:00 PM A man each one would have loved to make his own, but he was too big for one man... Too big for Christianity, they shared him with Islam; too big for the US they shared him with Philippines, big enough for the Philippines to share with Congolese jungle... Too big for America, they gave a part to Africa..... And ultimately too big for earth, she has finally shared him with heaven!!!... This man was surely the world's greatest

John Fleming Date: 6/5/2016 2:58:00 PM The ring is the loneliest place in all of the whole wide world. There is no hiding...No respite...No escape. It is where a man finds questions he otherwise might not think to ask. Muhammad Ali...A credit to his race - The human race! Heaven is blessed tonight - For the greatest amongst us has returned home!! God bless and protect you...Muhammad Ali. John Harold Fleming. Login to Reply John Fleming Date: 6/6/2016 11:29:00 AM He will be with you always, Messoh. Just whisper his name...And he will be there. God bless you. :) john Messoh Vincent Date: 6/5/2016 3:12:00 PM He was slowly sliding away and we feared this would come, but the passing of the world's greatest just creates a lonely silence over our saddened hearts.. Anyway, thanks brother for dropping in to read and comment.