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Language and Spirituality
By
Marvin X
The language is silence. It speaks
louder than words. Sometimes it is better to say
nothing, let life reveal itself. There is no hiding in
the spirit world. All is known. The unknown is known to
those who know. Get in the knower's ark. Sometimes the
mouth cannot keep quiet. It must chatter out of fear not
being heard. Yet one is heard in the silence. It is when
one talks that one is not heard. The eyes speak, the
heart, the hands, the feet speak. Hear the feet running
in fear. Hear the feet running in love. Hear the arms
moving in hate. You do not talk to me, yet I hear
everything you say.
No no no, that is all you say.
Everything about you is no. Your lips say no, your eyes,
your heart, your mind, your arms, your legs, your feet.
You are a no person. I run from you. You say no to God.
I am afraid of your no touch. I cannot expand my mind
around no people. You will kill my spiritual
development. No no no no.
When you say yes to life you open the
world of infinite possibilities. I understand no part of
no, only infinite possibilities. No does not exist in my
world, only yes. Yes to love. Yes to success, yes to
hope, yes to truth, yes to prosperity, yes to divinity,
yes to resurrection, yes to ascension, yes to eternity.
I am the language of yes. If you cannot say yes, get
away from me. I run from you, want nothing to do with
you. There is no hope for you until you open your mouth
to yes.
Cast away the yes fear. Let it go,
let God. Yes. No matter what, yes. No matter how long,
yes. No matter how hard, yes. Let there be peace in the
house, yes. Let there be love between you and me, yes.
Let there be revolution in the land, over the world,
yes. We will try harder, yes, we won't give up, yes. We
shall triumph, yes. Yes is the language of God. Yes is
the language of Divinity, Spirituality.
All the prophets said yes. Adam said
yes, Abraham said yes. Moses said yes. Solomon said yes,
Job said yes. Jeremiah, Isaiah said yes. The lover in
Song of Solomon said yes. David said yes, John and Jesus
said yes, Muhammad said yes, Elijah and Malcolm, Martin
and Garvey, Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth said yes.
Fannie Lou and Rosa Parks, Betty Shabazz and Coretta
Scott said yes. Mama and Daddy said yes. Grandma and
Grandpa said yes. All the ancestors said yes.
Forevermore, let go of no and say yes. Dance to yes,
Shout to yes.
Source:
Toward Radical Spirituality, Black Bird Press,
2007 (c) 2006 by Marvin X (El Muhajir)
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Marvin X has given permission to
Harvard University to publish his poem "For El Haji
Rasul Taifa" from Love and War: Poems by Marvin X
(1995). The poem will appear in The Encyclopedia of
Islam in America Volume II, Greenwood Press, edited
by Dr. Jocelyne Cesari of Harvard's Islam in the West
Program. Mr. X is co-editor of the forthcoming anthology
Muslim American Literature, University of
Arkansas Press, edited by Dr. Mojah Khaf. He is also in
the forthcoming Muslim American Drama, Temple
University.
posted 19 June 2006 |
