(Poem) Oh by Janine Canan

Goddess Saraswati grabbed me

and will not let me go! 

We are plunging over the cascades 

crashing onto the roiling river, 

charging onward toward some Ocean, they say,

but I have never seen, oh Shyama, 

what am I, your seeming child, supposed to hold onto? 

This pure Energy, this overwhelming Power,

this supreme Force has swept me totally out of control 

and Yes! I say it, I pronounce it, I am helpless 

in this unnamable and forever unnamed.

Oh Vak, I give up! Divinest Beauty,

sacred-most Knowledge, treasure of Language, 

subtlest music of Creation—these pitiful words 

will never crawl anywhere near 

the nearest edge of what you Are.

And I who have always been your adoring slave 

am now nothing more than yours.

Oh annihilating One!!!

Oh Goddess!!



(Meet Mago Contributor) Janine Canan.


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