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10.30.2005

God Is Alive Magic Is Afoot by Buffy Sainte-Marie 

God is alive; Magic is afoot
God is alive; Magic is afoot
God is afoot; Magic is alive
Alive is afoot.....
Magic never died.

God never sickened;
many poor men lied
many sick men lied
Magic never weakened
Magic never hid
Magic always ruled
God is afoot
God never died.

God was ruler
though his funeral lengthened
Though his mourners thickened
Magic never fled
Though his shrouds were hoisted
the naked God did live
Though his words were twisted
the naked Magic thrived
Though his death was published
round and round the world
the heart did not believe

Many hurt men wondered
many struck men bled
Magic never faltered
Magic always led.
Many stones were rolled
but God would not lie down
Many wild men lied
many fat men listened
Though they offered stones
Magic still was fed
Though they locked their coffers
God was always served.
2..

Magic is afoot. God rules.
Alive is afoot. Alive is in command.
Many weak men hungered
Many strong men thrived
Though they boasted solitude
God was at their side
Nor the dreamer in his cell
nor the captain on the hill
Magic is alive
Though his death was pardoned
round and round the world
the heart did not believe.

Though laws were carved in marble
they could not shelter men
Though altars built in parliaments
they could not order men
Police arrested Magic
and Magic went with them,
for Magic loves the hungry.

But Magic would not tarry
it moves from arm to arm
it would not stay with them
Magic is afoot
it cannot come to harm
it rests in an empty palm
it spawns in an empty mind
but Magic is no instrument
Magic is the end.

Many men drove Magic
but Magic stayed behind
Many strong men lied
they only passed through Magic
and out the other side
Many weak men lied
they came to God in secret
and though they left him nourished
they would not say who healed
Though mountains danced before them
they said that God was dead
Though his shrouds were hoisted
the naked God did live

3...

This I mean to whisper to my mind
This I mean to laugh with in my mind
This I mean my mind to serve 'til
service is but Magic
moving through the world
and mind itself is Magic
coursing through the flesh
and flesh itself is Magic
dancing on a clock
and time itself the magic length of God

Fall 1982 



My name is Cammie. I'm 7. I like reading books about outer space, nature and geography that my grandmother gives me. I go to a Christian school but my parents are not religious. I think Jesus was an alien and I'll never tell my teachers. My parents divorced when I was 2. I stay with 1 one week and then the other the next week, back and forth. So I have 2 homes. I have a lot of toys and clothes because I have 2 houses and my friends say I'm spoiled. I like going to plays with my mom and out on the boat with my dad. I hate sports. I'm in art class and like drawing portraits. My grandma is a painter. My dad is an architect and my mom is the most beautiful woman in the world. I hope I'm as pretty as her someday, but funnier like my dad. I think boys are funner than girls. But sometimes boys are too rough. That's the only reason why I don't really like them. They like to whip me with my braids and that's so annoying. It's not funny at all really and it hurts my head. But girls are brats. They like to say mean things about each other behind their backs and I thinks that's really ugly. Basically I don't have many friends because I'm not in the neighborhood so much and when I am I'm too busy going out to dinner or the movies with parents to play after school. I'm an only child but I like it. I'm a loner. I prefer adults. I like talking with my parents friends. They are all very nice people from all over the world. When I grow up I don't think I will ever get married because I don't like to share a bed and I'm afraid to have kids. It seems like it would hurt too much. I might like to adopt if I do get married. If I do get married I want to live in separate houses or a mansion because I don't want someone always right next to me. I'm worried because I've only read that some people do that but I've never met anyone that really has. I might be the first person to try it different. All my friends have divorced parents. A lot of kids only have 1 parent, that I know. I think that's so sad and I don't want that to ever happen to a kid I could have. I'm lucky. My parents just don't like each other because my mom is serious and my dad is a joker. It makes me sad, but what can you do? My Aunt Doris thinks she's psychic and says I'm going to be famous someday! I never want to be famous because a person can never have any privacy if they are famous. It seems like it would be really hard being Brook Shields or Oliva Newton John, to me. When I grow up I want to help people find what they are looking for. I don't know why. I also want to write stories about life for all the other people like me that don't have too many friends. I don't want to go to college because I hate math. The End.

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