Hineni / Here I Am
May 13, 2022
Here I am
ready and willing
to hear your voice
in the golden fire
that tips the willow trees
with spring sunlight --
to breathe your fragrance
on my fingers
kissed by rosemary --
to feel you with me
night and day
with every heartbeat.
You are becoming.
I want to become
worthy to walk with you.
I'm taking off my shoes,
exposed feet vulnerable
on shifting sand.
My heart is bare too:
ready to hear
and be changed.
Here I am - הנני / Hineni is Moses' response to God at the burning bush (Exodus 3:4).
Ready and willing - As in the blessing before counting the Omer, "Here I am, ready and willing..."
You are becoming. - The Name that God gives to Moses at the bush is אהיה אשר אהיה / Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh, "I am becoming what I am becoming." (Exodus 3:14)
I'm taking off my shoes - See Exodus 3:5. (See also Remove the habits...)
This poem was written in preparation for Shavuot. Here are a few others:
- Longing (for Shavuot), in Open My Lips, Ben Yehuda Press
- Fruits, published at this blog
- My Torah, in Texts to the Holy, Ben Yehuda Press