The following poem by Navjyot Kaur Vilain from Le Monastère, France was selected as a commendable mention in Wingword Poetry Prize 2020
The Mother has stirred
From the dark night of destruction
In the wake of tyranny
Amidst the denial of the sacred
She has arisen
With a surge of rage in her veins
And with divine justice in her heart
Be warned
Her howl resurrects the silenced from their stupor
Her eyes burn to the core of the countless crimes
Unveiling dark paradigms and darker narratives
And layer upon layer of lies and lies and lies
The heartbreak, her shield, her force to shatter the madness
O the primordial force! the Goddess of goddesses ! The Black One !
Noble titles bleed away as her feet stand engaged in virtue
The warrior untamed, loyal only to the source
She needs neither consent nor ceremony
For she, the rightful guardian of destruction
Guided by ferocious wrath and fierce love
Armed with fearlessness in the face of ignorance and hypocrisy
Fuelled by the injustice to the spirit of the soul
She strides upon the violation of the land and the death of the truth
As humankind sways to the beat of disorder
Wings of the world clipped by the vultures of deceit
Her bare feet tread upon the ashes of arrogance
Uprooting an ill-authority of misdeeds and malice
Crushing the foundations of a bloodsucking reality
She has risen to slay the predators might
She has risen to sever the bondage of obedience
She has risen in the name of freedom
She leads from the shadow of humanity
From behind the curtain she clings to the lost souls
She dances
Destroying the infectious virus of greed
From the foul scent of decaying minds
She dances
To the crematorium of illusions
Burning the pillars of power and privilege
She dances
Unhindered flames purify versions of vice and hate
The smoke purges sick structures of oppression
She dances
With the flow of her seasons will
The dance of death and life and death and life
Her rhythm holds no reason for he who cannot dance
Within her passion for life and her honour of death
The unseen Majesty of love
The ultimate restorer of righteousness
Grounded within her timeless grace
And ever blazing fire of life-giving abundance
Planting the humble seed of consciousness within the heart
From a love ignited by the calling of the truth
More intense than the fires that consume
A love more fierce than her fury
Defender of the light, bearer of the truth
From the darkness she rises to rebirth the sovereign law
“Oh glorious Kali
From the sanctity of your omnipresent love
Evoke the alchemy of change
And rebirth a braver new world”
In the name of death
In the name of life
And in the name of love
She dances.