With the Name of the Gracious and Compassionate Creator of the Heavens and the Earth

wasn't he? (a slow meditation) by Lester Allyson Knibbs (formerly Hakeem Muhammad)

wasn't he?

wasn't he some mother's son before he was killed?

were there no relations or friends who loved and cared for him?

what has he done (in being killed) to merit our sudden rage of attention?

did he become?

did he become at death?

did he become somebody at death?

at death did he become somebody to care for?

did we love him?

did we love him before he became? did we love him before he became at death?

before he became somebody at death

did we love him before at death he became somebody to care for?

did we love him enough?

did we love him enough?

did we love him enough to invest?

did we love him enough to invest anything?

a thought?

a smile?

a word?

a hand?

an embrace?

a commitment?

a risk?

yes yes yes

we say yes yes yes

yes we say oh yes we love all our brothers love all our sisters because we are all children of the Creator

and we are full of love

then …

then how is it that i walk past my brother

and in that moment

my retreating back has already forgotten him?

January 4, 2001

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