This room
Is very powerful:
Buddha, golden
Holding down
One side;
The primordial
Great Mother, black
Offering her
Bead
Of mitochondria
Holding down
The
Other.
My meditation
Chairs
Are made
Of wicker
A miracle
Crafted by
Human hands
Human Being
May I not
Forget you
In all
This talk
Of God.

©2008 Alice Walker