How Can I Face This World?
How can I face this world?
This ugly, angry world?
The pain,
The fear,
The fingers wrapped into fists.
The pain is so near,
The fear is right here,
The anger marching, marching.
The anger pounding;
The fear,
The fists,
Pounding, pounding.
How can I face this world?
How can I save this world?
How can I face this world?
This hard world.
This sad world.
This loud, loud,
Shouting, crying world.
-Text by Robert Bode
SATB with Piano
Premiered by the Kearney High School Chamber Choir at the 2019 Missouri Music Educators Association conference, under the direction of Mr. Dustin McKinney.
In the midst of a social, political and humanistic landscape that seems to be growing more fractured by the day, is a gentle majority who feel hopelessness when they look into the future, rather than hope.
The pain, the anger, and the fear that permeate our discourse, our actions, our communities and our world, is increasingly common, and so too is the question ‘How Can I Face This World?’