To Kali
To Kali,
Ma, today I feel your deep pain. Your grief.
In a world devoid of valiant hearts,
Your love’s pristineness is labelled as fierce
When its benevolence is experienced
by unconscious Gods.
Ma, today, I feel your burning rage.
In a world where pretence and fears shape choice
Your truth’s transformative power is blamed
And your immaculate presence banished.
Ma, today a river of tears
is gushing through me
from the countless times
your liberation giving heart
has been attacked,
blamed, deceived
misunderstood, murdered
and thrown out.
Live in my heart Ma,
While it is in shambles,
with rips within rips within rips
just like yours perhaps,
I have stitched it with the
gold thread of
unconditional trust in you.
In worship of your beauty
may my heart be your altar.
every expression of my heart’s truth
flowing through my open body
be a flower at your womb.
Through shared breath
and heartbeat
we stay alive
I in you, You in me.
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