Kali Hymn

Tear the Kindness from Me

O Kali, come live in me,

Infuse me with your terrible grace.

Fill me with your strength and darkness,

Let me revel in my power.

Laughing in divine rage and destruction,

Lend strength to my sword arm.

O Kali, let the heads that I sever be those of my illusions.

Garland me with the skulls of ignorance, picked clean

by awareness of my totality.

Tear from me the idols of kindness, false piety, and goodness.

O Kali, be my constant companion while I destroy my false selves

And stand ferocious in my truth.

O Kali, cut away the kindness that blinds from me.