Phoenix (printed)

Description

Voicing: SATB divisi choir, cello, and piano

duration: 4:30′

View the perusal score here.

level: 4

Text:

it’s okay

if you’re burning

with anger

or sadness

or both

it is necessary

for you to collapse

so you can learn

how phoenixes are

reborn

when they burn

and rise again

from the ashes of

their existence

survival is not beautiful

it is fire, ache, and everything that hurts

combined

but the survivors know how

after survival

everything is so insanely beautiful

~ Noor Unnahar