SHE TORE A MAP (2015)

SA, piano

Commissioned by Graphite Publishing for the 2015-16 Women’s Choir Commissioning Consortium

Secular

Choral score

$1.50 per copy (you are buying a digital license)


Text:

Once 
by mistake 
she tore a map 
in half. 
She taped it back, 
but crookedly. 
Now all the roads ended in water. 
There were mountains 
right next to her hometown. 
Wouldn't that be nice 
if it were true? 
I'd tear a map and be right next 
to you.

- Naomi Shihab Nye (Used with permission)