Two: Lullaby: orchestral version
(from 3 Voices by Sylvia Plath)
How long can I be a wall, keeping the wind off?
How long can I be
Gentling the sun with the shade of my hand,
intercepting the blue bolts of a cold moon?
The voices of loneliness, the voices of sorrow
Lap at my back, ineluctably.
How shall it soften them, this little lullaby?
How long can I be a wall around my green property?
How long can my hands
Be a bandage to his hurt, and my words
Bright birds in the sky, consoling, consoling?
It is a terrible thing
To be so open: it is as if my heart
Put on a face and walked into the world.