The Goddess That Turns the Page

Dr. X posts this from a place near Blueberry Road:

"It is time for the invocation, to atone
"For what we fear most and have not dared to face:
"Kali, the destroyer, cannot be overthrown;
"We must stay, open-eyed, in the terrible place.

"Every creation is born out of the dark.
"Every birth is bloody. Something gets torn.
"Kali is there to do her sovereign work
"Or else the living child will be stillborn.

"She cannot be cast out (she is here for good)
"Nor battled to the end. Who wins that war?
"She cannot be forgotten, jailed, or killed.
"Heaven must still be balanced against her.

"Out of destruction she comes to wrest
"The juice from the cactus its harsh spine,
"And until she, the destroyer, has been blest,
"There will be no child, no flower, and no wine.

"- May Sarton"