Original Post Date
2014-02-02 09:03 PM
Original Body
My Hero
(For Muhammad Ali)
He has months
To live, the
Tabloids have
Reported
At one time
He could move
faster backwards
Than most could move
Forwards
A kid sat in front
Of a small
Black and white TV set
In 1975
The words crawled
At the bottom of
The screen
Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier TKO round 14 in Manila
I liked them
Both
(somebody had to win)
I used to pretend i
Was him when i
Was a kid in the
schoolyard
Man, could he
Move
He fought
On too
Long
He won the title
When he too was
A kid
“I shook up the
World! I shook up
The world…he declared
He now travels
Around the
Globe
Reaching out
And shaking
Hands of old and
New fans alike
Shaking
He’s still
Shaking
The
World
© 2005 Tony Robles