WHAT IF
By Marvin X
What if there was no God but God
No Allah Jesus Jehovah Buddha Marx Lenin Jah Damballah
What if there was no God but God
No religion but God
No Muslim, Christian, Jew, Buddhist, Hindu
No God but God
No Baptist Sunni Shiite Zionist Hebrew Communist Sikh Catholic God in Christ
Methodist Sufi
Atheist
No God but God
No woman man child grandmother grandfather uncle aunt
No God but God
No holiday except everyday was holy day
No Sabbath but everyday no Juma’a but everyday
No prayin but all day
All day we say nothing but No God but God
No more Bible Qur’an Torah
No God but God
No talk conversation no sermon no speech no words but silence and
NO God but God
No moaning no laughing
No God but God
No talk no tears no wars
No God but God
No killing no lying
No God but God
No Al Humdulilah
No Hallelujah
No Hail Krishna
No Jah Rastafari
No God but God
The One
The Unity
Eternal
Everlasting
Loving
Peaceful
Maker
Owner
No God but God
What if what if what if
Maybe maybe maybe
Believe it believe it
Because it is
One God One Truth One Reality One Unity
No sects schisms divisions religions boxes tribes nations
One humanity One God
What if there is no God but God
What if what if what if
No temple no church no masjed
No God but God
No preacher no imam no rabbi no priest no minister no shaman no poet
No God but God
No prophet no messenger no messiah
No God but God
What if gay marry gay
Lesbian marry lesbian
Man marry woman
Man marry women
Woman marry men
Ho’s be with tricks
Tricks be with ho’s
What if what if what if
There is No God but God
No one beats woman
No one beats man
No one beats child
No one kills no one
No God but God
What if there is no war
What if there is peace on the planet
No God but God
What if guns are no more
No God but God
All is God
God is All
God is the people
God is the cow
God is the horse
God is the tree
God is the river
God is the fish
God is the child
God is the youth
God is the old people
God is the poor
God is the rich
God is the hungry
God is the sick
God is the dope fiend
God is the alcoholic
God is the sinner
No God but God
What if what if what if
There is no God but God
What if God is the captive you won’t liberate
The child you won’t love
The mama you hate
The daddy you hate
What if there is No God but God
What if God is the fear
You won’t release
God is the pain you won’t release
God is the love you won’t release
God is the tears you won’t cry
God is the lies you tell
God is the mountain you won’t climb
God is the success you won’t try
God is the beauty you don’t see
God is time
Running out the hourglass
God is the body you refuse to heal
God is the mind you refuse to feed
What if what if what if
What if God is ready when you ain’t ready
What if God is ready when you get ready
What if what if what if
What if there is no God but God
What if God is the forgiveness you won’t give
What if God is the denial you drown in like a hog in slop
What if what if what if
What if God is the peace in your house
The love in your life
The joy on your face
The happiness in your heart
The thankfulness of your smile
What if there is NO God but God
What if my life and my death are all for God
Not for woman, not for man
Not over a woman, not over a man
Life and death are all for God
What if what if what if
What if I grieve for nothing
Because God is everything
Whatever God wants I want
Whatever God don’t want I don’t want
Whatever God has I have
Whatever God don’t have I don’t want
What if what if what if
There is No God but God.
3/15/05 mrvnx@yahoo.com
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Marvin X Rocks Crowd At Oakland's Malcolm X Jazz Festival
Saturday was a hot day in the Bay, perfect for the annual Malcolm X Jazz Festival in the multicultural Fruitvale District, produced by the East Side Arts Alliance. When I arrived the Welfare Poets were on stage. They have developed and expanded over the years, adding vocals to their spoken word. I wasn't officially on the program, so I had to Bogart my way to the mike with the Barakas. I told Amiri, "I'm gong on with you." He said, "Do I have a choice?" I said, "No." Amina read and then Baraka introduced me as his grandfather. I read What if There Is No God But God. There was a deathly silence in the crowd, except for the lady dancing on the grass in front of the stage. I could see the holy ghost in her eyes and body movement. As I read and looked at her, I said to myself, "Oh, shit, I didn't plan for all this." Something told me what I was reading had nothing to do with me., the Higher Power was speaking, I was just a vehicle. When I came off stage, one of the organizers said, "You seemed a little angry." I said, why not be angry," but to myself, I knew it wasn't about my anger, it was all about the Ghost.
I white woman thanked me for saying the poem. When I asked her if she wanted me to send her a copy, she said, "No, I don't need a copy, the poem is in my heart."
The sun and the great jazz had the crowd in a mellow mood. The music seemed to have a very calming effect on the people. There were no incidents. It was a great day to be alive in the Bay. It was especially great to meet Mabel Williams, widow of my revolutionary hero, Robert F. Williams. Brother Robert had inspired the Black revolution with his little book Negroes With Guns and his propaganda track The Crusader.
On the hip hop stage, Marcel Diallo of Black Dot reminded the crowd about the bounty on Asata Shakur's head. We wonder if the Post-Fidel government of Cuba will give her up to gain concessions with the US gringos. It won't happen if a million Africans march in her defense.
Black Panther Minister of Culture, Emory Douglas informed me he had just come from a Black Panther reunion in Seattle, Bobby Seale was there also. He said Geronimo is between here and Africa where he lives and works with Panther Pete O'Neil and his wife who have been in exile since the 60s in Tanzania.
Some hip hop poets asked me to assist them in getting a group of Bay Area poets to New York. I told I them I would, although I don't see any need to impress New York. When the Panthers revolted here in Oakland, the East Coast heard about it soon enough and picked up the banner.
The festival ended about 6PM with a closing act by Tracie Bartlow and her African dancers.
Yes, we needed to be reminded we are Africans. A friend whispered to me that African culture in the only culture in America. I remember James Baldwin telling me in a 1968 interview, "We're the only thing that happened here, nothing else happened here except us!"
Gerald Ali's thoughts are very interesting. They leave room for
thought.The beauty of language, of poetic license, is that we have the power toutilize it in more than one way. If "What if there was no God but God" was translated into another language, perhaps it would make lots of sense to the observer of words. We must learn to move away from rigidity when it comes to the written word. After all, the language in which we have become familiar with was created by man.
Love and Blessings,
Dana Rondel, Author
GERALD ALI wrote:
''''What if there was no God but God'''
The term ''no god but god'' is gramatically a stupidity, there is no allah but allah would be the same, there is no marvin but marvin, also.
There is no creator other than allah would be correct.
The movement of allah is in the form of a spiral, so says the Koran.
God and Allah are two different things.
There have been and still are many gods, the theistic version of god, is but man raised to the position, deism covers any other form of life or inanimate matter, the Greeks invented and classified the terms of theism, -- the ism, -- de ism, E.
That everything will be of god and be god was the idiocy of Ghandi, the British trained Barrister and self advertiser.
Gerald Ali's thoughts are very interesting. They leave room for
thought.The beauty of language, of poetic license, is that we have the power toutilize it in more than one way. If "What if there was no God but God" wastranslated into another language, perhaps it would make lots of sense to the observer of words. We must learn to move away from rigidity when it comes to the written word. After all, the language in which we have become familiar with was created by man.
Love and Blessings,
Dana Rondel, Author
GERALD ALI wrote:
''''What if there was no God but God'''
The term ''no god but god'' is gramatically a stupidity, there is no allah but allah would be the same, there is no marvin but marvin, also.
There is no creator other than allah would be correct.
The movement of allah is in the form of a spiral, so says the Koran.
God and Allah are two different things.
There have been and still are many gods, the theistic versdion of god, is but man raised to the position, deism covers any other form of life or inanimate matter, the Greeks invented and classified the terms of theism, -- the ism, -- de ism, E.
That everything will be of god and be god was the idiocy of Ghandi, the British trained Barrister and self advertiser.
Gerald Ali's thoughts are very interesting. They leave room for
thought.The beauty of language, of poetic license, is that we have the power toutilize it in more than one way. If "What if there was no God but God" wastranslated into another language, perhaps it would make lots of sense to the observer of words. We must learn to move away from rigidity when it comes to the written word. After all, the language in which we have become familiar with was created by man.
Love and Blessings,
Dana Rondel, Author
GERALD ALI wrote:
''''What if there was no God but God'''
The term ''no god but god'' is gramatically a stupidity, there is no allah but allah would be the same, there is no marvin but marvin, also.
There is no creator other than allah would be correct.
The movement of allah is in the form of a spiral, so says the Koran.
God and Allah are two different things.
There have been and still are many gods, the theistic versdion of god, is but man raised to the position, deism covers any other form of life or inanimate matter, the Greeks invented and classified the terms of theism, -- the ism, -- de ism, E.
That everything will be of god and be god was the idiocy of Ghandi, the British trained Barrister and self advertiser.
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