INITIATION

The Goddesses asked me:
Who are you?
Of what are you capable?

I responded:
I AM
I am capable

Of walking among the death-mongers
Who concoct the misery of the world.
I take back my power.

Of living among the broken-hearted
Who manifest the anguish of the world.
I dry their tears.

Of singing among the weary
Who wait to hear the meaning of their desperate lives.
I offer up joy.

Of balancing on the blade's edge
Over the bottomless chasm.
I shape-shift in Chaos.

Of bearing the Scourge of the Goddess's scintillating passion.
Of using the icy Key of Her impeccable wisdom.
Of twining the endless Cord of Her wealth of eternity.

Of weaving a web so magikal
That my enemies think me weak and foolish
And so perish in the traps of their own making.

Copyright ©2002 Louise Chambers