Reaching Back from Here
Conveys the healing that accompanies releasing the past, with all its pain and beauty.
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$2.75 |
Poignant and lyrical, commissioned in remembrance to honor a beloved founding director.
Commissioned by
Good Company, A Vocal Ensemble
Mixed Choir
Difficulty
Moderate
Reaching Back from Here
Nancy Wood
Reaching back from here
All that I remember of my life
Are the great round rocks and not
The unimportant stones.
I know that I experienced pain and yet
The scars have healed so that
I am like the tree covering itself
With new growth every year.
I know that I walked in sadness and yet
All that I remember now
Is the soothing autumn light.
I know that there was much to
make my life unhappy
If I had stopped to notice how
The world sings a broken song.
But I preferred to dwell within
A universe of fields and streams
Which echoed the wholeness of my song.