Kundalini Splendor

You want the chakras
to be symbols
each one,
with colors, numbers,
attributes,
traits
all its own

You assign them a position
in the hierarchy
of things that are
lower and higher,
debased to exalted,
inferior to supreme.

I say each is a door,
an entrance for joy,
an opening where love
can smite you
again and again
until you faint
with delight,
until you amaze yourself
with what you are feeling,
like a plucked string,
vibrating
within the instrument
you have become.

copyright, Dorothy Walters