voicing: SSA | catalog number: SBMP 1629 | duration: c. 4:00 | price: $3.10
accompaniment: piano

The poem by Jan Richardson is beautifully presented here. Written in memory of those lost to gun violence, the text offers hope for the future.


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Therefore I Will Hope
I have no cause
to linger beside
this place of death,
no reason
to keep vigil
where life has left,
and yet I cannot go,
cannot bring myself
to cleave myself
from here,

can only pray
that this waiting
might yet be a blessing
and this grieving
yet a blessing
and this stone
yet a blessing
and this silence
yet a blessing
still

© Jan Richardson from Circle of Grace: A Book of Blessings for the Seasons.
Used by permission. janrichardson.com

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