VILLANELLE FOR GRADUATION (2006)
VILLANELLE FOR GRADUATION (2006)
Villanelle for Graduation was premiered in 2014 by Amherst High School, Justin Pomietlarz, director.
The text is by the composer. It was written the last time she graduated from somewhere.
• SATB choir
•Duration: 3.5 minutes
Villanelle for Graduation
It seems our lives are in tatters:
So many loose ends!
In late spring as we start to scatter.
The Alma Mater makes us sadder
The end of the semester pends
It seems our lives are in tatters
This time of year, nature flatters:
The weeping cherry tree bends
In late spring as we start to scatter.
…something shatters
Our fluttering hearts a message sends:
It seems our lives are in tatters
On youth’s path, up life’s ladders,
An unsure way we wend
In late spring as we start to scatter.
Searching for all that really matters
We look through a wider and wiser lens
It seems our lives are in tatters
In late spring as we start to scatter.