Before the Amen is a collection of grief poems born from loss – and from love that refused to end. After the loss of her mother, a daughter learns how grief and grace can exist side by side. Through tender memories of cooking, bedtime prayers, and lullabies now sung to her own child, these pages hold the sacred ache of goodbye and the quiet strength of what remains. For anyone who has lost their mother – or anyone they’ve ever loved deeply – this book is a hand to hold in the dark. It is proof that love never truly leaves. It simply changes form.