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A Poetic and Meditative Experience
.ೃ࿐ BLACK OCEAN .ೃ࿐
I miscalculated my step
And sank into a dark portal
An ocean of blackness,
Lost in devastating vastness.
The wings of my white dress
Floated about me like a ghost,
The length of my charcoal hair
Wrapping around my throat.
My arms and limbs
Taken by gravity,
My consciousness half-awake
And half-asleep.
Where are you taking me?
I ask the black water telepathically
She answers with silence,
Elegantly letting me drift
Deeper into her depths.
Strangely I can breathe
As if this sea was cut from me
No discord, no enmity
Rather, a genteel camaraderie.
Smooth and serenely
I’m carried along in harmony
With her quiet authority
Her terrifying abyss
Of infinite nothingness.
My heart misses a beat
Isn’t this feeling familiar?
It’s like meeting a mirror
I have known terror in comfort
But here is a comfort in terror!
Great goddess, why am I here?
To show you your strength
I hear her say.
Available to you night or day.
Sink into your soul
The spark that you had forsaken
For the illusion of fulfilment
My babe, you are already whole.
Come back to me
Into this black sea,
Where you were born
You are not alone.
Remember your origins
This is your grand homecoming,
Replenish your energy
In your very own soul.
Do not be afraid to own it all
This inherent power of the Gods,
Both the terror and benevolence
Your own beauty and malevolence
Devi, awaken to your truest Self,
The magic and the mystery,
Your ocean’s nature, its glory.
Only as you reach the bottom
Will I let you teach what’s forgotten;
Your truth and your perfection
Stripped away by your predilection
Towards man-made fabrications.
As I floated in her twilight waters
I understood her divine lesson.
Silently let it be,
Glide with her through eternity.
Choose her over everything.
There is no chaos or calamity
When I am one with this sea.
No one and nothing has
Any power over me.
© 2017 Payal Patel
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