Engraved

Julie Fernandes

It is burned into me.

It is seared into my soul.

It is engraved into my very being.

This, this passion.

Set at the root of where I grow.

It is engraved into my fate.

My destiny is the ink that fills the letters.

My name, engraved into His book.

Where he gave me my gift.

This ability, this passion,

He has embossed into my nature,

Is written in that book, beside my name.

Engraved, as I am in His book,

So is this passion, this gift,

Is engraved within me.

Five Line Exercise: Eliminating the factor of the internal judge by sketching five lines, crossing out certain words, rewriting without a second thought, selecting one word and writing about it.