O Mother, who really
Knows Your magic?
You’re a crazy girl
Driving us all crazy with these tricks.
No one knows anyone else
In a world of Your illusions.
Kali’s tricks are so deft,
We act on what we see.
And what suffering-
All because of a crazy girl!
Who knows
What She truly is?
Ramprasad says: If She decides
To be kind, this misery will pass.
From: Grace and Mercy in her Wild Hair
Selected Poems to the Mother Goddess
Translated by Leonard Nathan and Clinton Seely