Lalita's delight

please don't take me, Devi......
too far apart

open my narrows
stretch my fill

but may I remain
as a felt sense,

as myself, to know
Your You

as different from
my me.

may I remain apart
just enough
to feel myself
as Your container.

My devotion is to hold you in the world,
for the world to see,
You,
shining bright in me.


This
I sense
is a shared delight.

lalita devi

the night before sadhana
and all through the house

of myself
is still

of my home
is beautiful

of my heart
is swept clean

to greet Her.

i feel like a young girl
preparing the space of her unknown woman to be lit
by the Devi.