I come from the depths of your being,
Dark Goddess, mistreated Goddess,
I go by many names, some call me Kali, some call me Mab,
I writhe around on the forest floor,
I take on your pain,
I take on your anger,
And I take all the blame,
I am a deep sexual being,
But I am so much more,
Just by my presence I am both curse and blessing,
Do I frighten you,
Do I turn you on,
Does my mask of death and rebirth send your head spinning,
I walk these modern streets and it in your civilized dwellings,
And I provoke you,
You draw me near, you push me away,
Yet you cannot shake me,
I am a part of you, a part of creation,
I am caked with mucd blood and sweat,
But I clean up nice don’t i?
I swell up to give birth,
And I run barren in childless through the recesses of your existence,
You despise me for exciting you,
YOu love me, you have no choice,
Tpo despise me is to despise yourself,
I lurk inside of you,
And I lay down,
In my “sin” I want to heal you,
I want to erase all shame,
I am the wound you never admit,
I am Eve cast from the garden,
I wanted more, to know more, to taste more,
And in your fear, as you think you are pushing me down,
You only make me stronger,
I am black, and cold, and harsh on the outside,
And pink and fragrant and made of compassion on the inside,
It is inside you fear,
Vulnerability is my greatest weapon,
I am the winningness to love, to play, to get dirty,
I exist in forever,
And no matter how many angry sex acts, and rejection dramas you act out,
I am back again to taunt you,
The maiden, the mother, and the crone,
All inside you, Love all of you, love all of me,
I am the piece missing from your religion,
I am sacred sacrament,
The power of creation, the power of the void, the eternal womb,
And I will never leave you,
I lay across the altar of your humanity, and I am the gateway to your divinity,
I ask you, put your hand into my chest,
Take my heart out, and eat of it,
Absorb my deep love for you,
The shadow and the light,
I am your salvation, disguised as your greatest downfall,
I wond you, and set you free at the same time,
I am your shadow,
To some I am repulsive,
To deny me is to deny yourself,
I am your shadow, your Dark Goddess, your sacred sexuality, your connection to the Divine,
I am the key to your knowledge of self,
Do no forsake me, it is impossible,
I am in all of you
Erin Shannon 1998