By Stanley Collymore
I would've willingly and quite unreservedly without a
moment's hesitation gone in you place my Black
brother, inspirational mentor and my enduring
friend as I'm equally and absolutely sure that
many more not only of our Black race but
every other one would also freely have
done, but God in his supposed objective
evaluation evidently decided Muhammad Ali that
your time inexplicably had come and therefore
our earnest wishes however sincerely and
rather heartfelt were spoken and most
particularly after your last illness,
which seemingly he graciously
accepted, somehow it seemed
just couldn't practicably for
whatever reason, he never
ever said, be realistically
entertained, sanctioned
and most certainly not
be agreed to by him.
Why not? I'm still perplexed to know and just
goes to show that even the great ostensibly
omnipotent and allegedly all-knowing
Deity actually can and does at times,
and markedly so as in this specific
situation, get things quite horribly,
rather uncomfortably and most
terribly wrong! And yes I'm
scathingly angered by this
assessment of his to take
your life on Earth away
from you Muhammad
Ali in this premature
and pointless way!
Surely Heaven has already had a superfluity of truly
great people taken away from us in this year alone.
So why the imperative need for another one who
has single-handedly done so much for his long
standing and unremittingly victimized race
specially, as well as for the rest of human
kind generally and whose irreplaceable
loss at this particular period of our
existence will not only serve to
aggravate our already escalating and egregious
societal problems that you assiduously and
diligently with creditable aplomb have
worked to alleviate Muhammad Ali;
but now with you regrettably gone
will more than likely provide an
uncalled for catalyst-situation
for greater racial intolerance akin to that
of bygone eras while simultaneously
being a disastrous body blow, and
inestimably so, to the remainder
of civilized, law-abiding and
peace-loving elements of
our routinely hard-done
by and long suffering
inclusive humanity!
© Stanley V. Collymore
6 June 2016.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
This is something I was unaware...the way the anger, frustration, emotions are seen is just outstanding. The pang of anger is the thing which attracted me to question the same though I am estranged from this.. Well written... keep up..