close up and personal

She is here, without a doubt
because I am.
 
This is not blasphemy
nor hubris.
 I couldn't see or feel the way I do
without Her.
 
This is divinity, 
close up and personal,
and real as far as I am.

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.

she done undone me

I give thanks to Her
Who took so much away
that I could finally feel
undone
undone
to such a degree
that putting it back together again
was so beyond me
that all I can do is fall at Her Feet,
in Her Hands.

She did what no lover could do.

I dare to imagine
that my next lover will meet Her,
through me.