— Healing Heart —

2012

Commissioned by Bexley High School Vocal Ensemble, conductor Amy Johnston Blosser

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Healing Heart

Here, time is moving
In quiet breaths and
In the long, slow turn of seasons.

Here the pain of love's arrow,
Once scarlet
Fades to memory.

Here the sigh of tides
And fall's surrender into snow
Mark a white forgetting.

Here, layers of wonder
And the heart's gentle song
Call us out again
into the morning,
into the light.

Robert Bode (b1959)