Worth the Wait by Oliver Caplan

Music by Oliver Caplan, www.olivercapla...
Poetry by Meghan Guidry, www.meghansgui...
New Hampshire Master Chorale
www.nhmasterch...
Juventas New Music Ensemble
www.juventasmu...
Dan Perkins, Conductor
October 29, 2022
Granoff Music Center at Tufts University, Medford, MA
Worth the Wait
Poetry by Meghan Guidry
I knew you every spring
when the cherry blossoms bloomed.
Pink petals strewn on marble white.
I knew you in the rhythms
of city grids, footfall symphonies
that swelled on summer nights.
I knew you in the currents
of Cayuga Lake, where willows dipped
to deeper blues like shrines.
I knew you on top of Giles Tower
where starlight sang your name
through red maples and pitch pine.
I knew you every time I held
my hands in the soil and heard
you in the reverberation of the roots.
I knew you in every new melody
taking shape, the fade
of piano keys to quiet truths.
I knew you in every single step.
So when we met,
I had known you forever.

[@achronolgia]

Beautiful