RISE
I come and I go I do as I please
I never left your side
And will never leave
I am the ruled and the ruler
I am the alpha and the omega
I am the warrior and the enemy at the gates
I move within you as light and darkness
I lift my legs and the worlds tremble
|I do my dance and the gods plead
I smile and generations collapse in a trance
My beauty is beyond words, I am beauty before there was beauty
I am timeless and boundless
I am infinite
I am dance, I am expression, I am desire
I am the smell of a rose as it blooms
I am divine nectar, love in its purest form
I am Shakti
Rise with me.
ROAR
I dance with darkness
I hunt with lions
For I am a lion
With a roar so deafening
Oceans boil
And surf pours unto the heavens
Worlds collapse
For I am invincible
I am the order and the right
There is no school
There are no exceptions
For I am the rule
I am a warrior, a Pawar
I am queen of the cosmic jungle
I roam free
I fear no one, nothing
For I am power supreme
Slayer of Mahakaal1
And of demons within
I am fearless beyond comprehension
For I am born of divinity
Born of Shiva
I am Kali, Parvati and Adishakti
I am Tara, I am Amba, I am Chamunda
And Bhawani
Fear not for I am the universal mother
But also the destroyer
Of evil in every cosmic permutation
For I am total annihilation
In every variation
My face is the light of Shiva
My eyes come from the light of Agni2
My arms from the light of Vishnu3
My tresses from the light of Yama4
I am pure energy
Of epic scale inconceivable over infinity
Of divine consciousness
Without me, Shiva has no expression
Without me, there is no creation
For I am creation
I am Durgati nashini5 Durga
I am Kaal vinaashini6 Durga
The manifestation of Shakti
Of source, of Prakriti7
Bow to me
Bow to Durga the predator
And roar within.
- 1 Mahakaal – Name of Lord Shiva
- 2 Agni – Lord of Fire
- 3 Vishnu – Lord of Preservation
- 4 Yama – Lord of Death
- 5 Durgati Nashini – the one who eliminates suffering
- 6 Kaal vinaashini – the one who removes unpleasant time
- 7 Prakriti – primal matter whose equilibrium is the basis of all observed empirical reality