The Only Answer Is the Question

"Moon Goddess" by Josephine Wall (http://www.josephinewall.co.uk/art_gallery.html)

Today is the sixth day of Navaratri, and as we try to contemplate you, Mother Divine; Creator of All and Goddess Supreme, we cannot find any answers. There is no solution to You, or equation for You or definition of You. 

You are the future, the immense morning sky
turning red over the prairies of Eternity.
You are the rooster-crow after the Night of Time,
the dew, the early devotions, and the Daughter,
the Guest, the Ancient Mother and Death. 

You are the shape that changes its own shape,
that climbs out of fate, towering,
that which is never shouted for, and never mourned for,
and no more explored than a savage wood. 

You are the meaning deepest inside me,
that never reveals the secret of its owner.
And how you look depends on where we are:
from a boat you are shore, from the shore a boat. 

--Rainier Marie Rilke

You have no permanence except eternal impermanence. Even the Inevitable becomes the Never-Was under Your spell. 

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