Malcolm's Poem

By any means neccesary
was not meant to be used
in the same ways that some
rebels execute the leaders
that liberated them
in the first place.

His skin, was engraved
with the very mechanisms
that his tongue and vocal chords
could outpower.

Children will not know his name
without the fear his words insighted,
the phrases of those too tormented
to stay afraid. His rust colored hair
will gaze to the east in peace,
while the room where he was treated
like the messiah of cannibals.

Some sacrifices will not nourish
the herd into saving themselves
and followers will do nobody any good
when they're hands are in their pockets.