With All Due Respect [for Kali] By D.S. West

You know I've loved you
madam maddest.

Your manifold aspects

emptied my coffers,

laughed at my genitals,

turned me against my

in godly glorious

immolation.

I came back and again,

again for you, so

with due respect,

can I have your blessing for

a Venus next time?

You who love most savagely

& know my me completely…

as when I emerged

from your blissful,

blissless tapasia.

Love is unclean

under tight restrictions.

With your permission

I’d ask around,

see what the streets

have to sing about

a love minus destruction,

ended by loss…

a kinder energy’s

darling divine.

Let me roam, my

most beautiful:

destruction!

loss will sew

plenty.

Author bio: 

D.S. West is an artist, writer, and armchair mystic from Longmont, CO. West's work has appeared in Crack the Spine, From the Depths, and the Deep Cuts: Mayhem, Menace, & Misery horror anthology.