El Hajj Malik Shabazz

El Hajj Malik Shabazz/who went through the changes and

came out Black and Shining and pointed the way

Who became a truth/and a positive action/and more

than a voice in the wind

Who became transformation we could see/and touch

Reality in spite of

Who shouted his truths/whispered his challenges

dared a whole generation to use his Strength

Whose Black-Spirituality was exploded into the air and we

inbreathed him and he became a part of me/and you

carry him in you/and he is restless and demands

Demands an Action past rhetoric/an Action that delivers

itself/a Love past sighing/a Love that creates today

full of the knowledge of Tomorrow and of what it Will/Be

unless we move to change it into what it Must/Be

El Hajj Malik Shabazz/who went through the changes

and became a Truth/and a positive action/and more than

a voice in the wind