Amy Nemecek, Cohort 10 student of the Soul Care Institute, is a poet. She loves God and she loves words. She shares one of her poems with us here about our belovedness, the foundational teaching of the SCI.
Amy’s first book of poetry called The Language of the Birds and Other Poems is coming out this year through Paraclete Press.
Beloved
You have carved, chiseled, tattooed
me on the palms of your hands.
Yud. Dalet. Two Hebrew runes
christen me cherished, adored,
favored, precious. Beloved, let us
love one another. Dearly beloved,
we are gathered here together.
In the high and far-off times,
O Best Beloved. My beloved is
mine and I am his. Indelible,
undeniable identity.
I put mirrored palms together,
raise them out and up in praise,
reminding you, reminding myself,
that I am a marked woman, forever
branded by the etchings of your grace.
This poem was first published in Snapdragon: A Journal of Art & Healing, issue 3.2 (summer 2017) and is reprinted by permission of the poet.