Don't Be Afraid of Darkness

Sheet music available at jwpepper.com
This song is dedicated to Sabriye Tenberken, well-known for her book,
"My Path Leads To Tibet"
She became blind at the age of 12, but completed a degree in Central Asian Studies at the University of Bonn, learned Tibetan and invented a braille alphabet for the Tibetan language, since one did not exist.
She then went to China on her own and started the first school for blind children in Tibet, using the braille alphabet that she had invented.
While corresponding with her, Sabriye asked me to write a song telling people that they should not be afraid of blindness--she feels that she experiences the world in a profound way that she did not know before she lost her sight. This song is my response to that request.