Uncertainty

Take comfort in the uncertainty of the future.
It will always be so;
in this it does not change.
The present will bloom and flow and rot beneath your feet
and you will walk and live and sorrow and love,
until time calls you
and earth claims you.

Drink the voices of those that walk beside you;
turn to see them,
be joyful in their eyes.
Your paths will rise and fall to meet the stars,
your voices rise and fade into the sky –
until night calls you
and water claims you.

Thomas LaVoy

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This poem, Uncertainty, appears at the conclusion of a letter that I wrote for a time capsule.. After the premiere of water psalms at Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh, I was invited to submit the score and an accompanying letter to be included with other items that next see the light in 2120, the 500th anniversary of the opening of the kirk.

This poem is available for use by composers under certain terms, so long as permission has been granted by me in writing. If you are interested in setting Uncertainty, please fill out the form on my poetry page and indicate that you would like to do so.