The completion of any inquiry-expand-activate process is a time to reflect on your Warrior Journey as a whole, express gratitude for those who helped you along the way and celebrate what you’ve achieved.
Here’s a poem I like to read at the end of each Warrior Journey I take. It’s my way of honoring the process – and locking in what made my personal growth possible:
Dark Mother Kali Ma,
Thank you for rocking me and my foundations, when my soul cried for a way out.
Thank you for stubbornly burning down the tower when I did not choose to walk out myself.
Thank you for continuing to rip away all of the layers of protection so I have no choice but stand naked as I am.
Thank you for sending in wave after wave so that I know with conviction I can ride whatever comes my way.
Thank you for serving up those who did not see me so that I was forced to see myself.
Thank you for inviting in the haters so that I could learn to love myself.
Thank you for sending those who would never understand me so that I was forced to know and trust myself.
Thank you for delivering ones who overlook me so I can see how much I have to share.
Thank you for continuing to catch me off guard so I can see all of the ways I attempt to protect myself from life.
Thank you for loving so ferociously no matter how much I screamed and kicked.
Thank you for your relentless compassion and for doing it all while never expecting thank you in return.
Who is Kali Ma? Kali Ma is the Hindu goddess of time, creation, preservation and destruction. She is known as the Divine Mother, the Dark Mother, the Terrible Mother. As “dark” as she may appear, she is the most compassionate goddess of them all.