O Mystery

We watched today (thanks for the heads up, Kendall) the documentary of composer Morten Lauridsen, “Shining Light.” Beautiful documentary. I could write volumes about this, but I will keep it short. I took this quote away from it: “If we are to find joy in the midst of affliction, we go to music.”

Here is the Neruda poem he put to music in “Soneto de la Noche”:

When I die I want your hands on my eyes:
I want the light and the wheat of your beloved hands, to pass their freshness over me one more time, to feel the smoothness that changed my destiny.

I want you to live while I wait for you, asleep, I want for your ears to go on hearing the wind, for you to smell the sea that we loved together, and for you to go on walking the sand where we walked.

I want for what I love to go on living
and as for you I loved you and sang you above everything, for that, go on flowering, flowery one,

so that you reach all that my love orders for you, so that my shadow passes through your hair, so that they know by this the reason for my song.

Soneto de la Noche:

https://youtu.be/GVZJVgX5jN4