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SATB Choir and Piano, 4:00

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Premiered by Will McLean and South Salem High School Concert Choir in Kansas City for the 2019 National ACDA Convention

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by Joshua Rist

Here is where my grieving wanes

As I lay down the corpse of my old name

A new song is rising

Deep in the breath of a waking mind

An ever expanding horizon line

Where loss and birth are intertwined

Here on the ground where I’m standing in bare feet

A bush in a desert lies burning before me

Pulsing questions, coursing through me

Here on the shore of a heavenly ocean

My mind is illumined and my spirit reopened

Here the Cosmos asks me

Who are you

Who will you be

Here, around my dreams and doubts

These questions I must live in and live out

The veil of distraction

Covering over my inner eye

The cataract of our design

Is lifted by the morning light

Here on the ground where I’m standing in bare feet

A bush in a desert lies burning before me

Pulsing questions, coursing through me

Here on the shore of a heavenly ocean

My mind is illumined and my spirit reopened

All I am and all I’ll be

My thread inside this tapestry

Who are you

Who will you be

As I open the door

I feel the wild wood beckon once more

Who are you

Who will you be