Ryan Main (b. 1984) is an award-winning composer, director, and clinician whose music for choirs is performed at all levels worldwide. His...
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Item no. 1001117P (TTB print)
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About This Piece
This setting of an original text by poet Rye Lanae Boothe is moving and inspiring. Listeners will feel encouraged to persevere through the weight of life's challenges, for it may be the very soil in which a seed can bloom.
Details
- Voicing
- TTB
- Composer
- Ryan Main
- Duration
- 5:51
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Full Text
There’s a way we all want to feel Branches that reach to the sky Sometimes we cannot reach our arms that high Can’t feel the sun rise Feel only the dark around our eyes There’s a moment when formless mystery Becomes a butterfly, becomes spring But for now we decompose And make a soil so rich we can grow After all this Grief, pain, and darkness The weight I feel had better be soil And I better be a seed Trees grow after seeds have died Change is a part of everything Changes makes me me After all this Grief, pain, and darkness We are under so much heavy darkness We had better be seeds I cannot run from the dark but I also cannot run from love by Rye Boothe