Black Mother
Jai Ma Kalaratri — Celebrating the divine feminine
Ma Kalaratri is the seventh Goddess manifestation of the Navadurga (nine forms of Goddess Durga). Navaratri (the nine nights festival) celebrates the divine feminine.
“You are the primordial cause of everything
Bringing into force the three qualities (sattva, rajas and tamas)
You are the dark might of periodic dissolution
You are the great night of final dissolution and the terrible night of delusion”
Ma, time held me
without mercy
its swing severs
my soul
stays unstitched
it counts beats
of all hearts
remaining and gone
it counts life
in its tongue
of time.
until you arrive.
you arrive
my mother
with your dark.
your dark
is sea of
no time
it rises and vanishes
in your command
over death
of a dark that is
momentary,
over spark
of a dark that is
eternal.
Ma, you have in your hand
severed head of my time
at your feet is my Shiva
longing for her Shakti
to bloom without fear
My Mother, bless me
with your black nights.
~
Vaishali Paliwal
