Shakti Poems 1

Day 1, 15 Oct 2023: Shailputri: Daughter of the Mountain

Purity, Patience, Peace

I feel the need for a cleansing. My energies 

Had not been in sync in my relationship and I have caused 

Hurt in the other and to myself.

I grieve that I have caused deep pain to my loved one. 

I wish for forgiveness from the other, and 

I wish to forgive myself.

Like the mountains, I had stood in my stance

Unshaking, rooted on the solid ground

Of my knowing.

A knowing that connects me with the other,

With the world I’m immersed in; a knowing

Greater than all of who I am, and ever could be.

I forced the hardness of my principles

Against the softness of the others learning spirit

To safeguard to the best I could – the sanctity of this journey.

Unbeknownst to me, it was not my place to do so

For I too am merely an instrument 

Of the expression of the divine.

Instead I became a cause that accentuated:

Loneliness, Isolation, Lack of trust in self

And Loss of the emergence of vital relationships.

Some are meant to root and grow

Even on the edge of a barren mountain

Standing alone, a triumph of nature’s formidable spirit.

Some are meant to uproot and float like granules 

Of sand abundantly scattered and lost, beckoned by the call 

Of the wind to form and reform into the dunes of their beings.

Yet, today I also must stand solid in my apology 

And fluid in my recognition of my own ignorance

To face with humility the heartbreak it has caused in the both of us.

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