#2 Kundalini

Thank those urges, I say,

for the “residual power of pure desire”

for lust, for passion-

for sheer physical being.

For the mental explosions

of that avid experience, in union.

Thank the fervent longing, I daresay,

for the slaves that we are.

uniting us,

in animal pursuits.

Elevating us,

reducing us-

and gently reminding us-

that evolution, notwithstanding,

progress, thought, philosophy –

and all else in between-

cannot free us from the captor

of desperate, decadent,

sometimes, even divine

Desire.