Your Morning is a solo voiced rawing deep inspiration from E. E. Cummings' evocative poem, “your homecoming will be my homecoming.” This piece reflects the ethereal and introspective qualities found in Cummings' verse, where themes of longing, presence, and the intertwining of identities are explored. The piano accompaniment in Your Morning seeks to mirror the poem's dreamlike and transient essence, creating a musical landscape that evokes the delicate balance between absence and presence, solitude and reunion. Through its melodic lines and harmonic textures, the composition captures the poem's intimate dialogue between self and other, resonating with the timeless beauty of Cummings' words.

your homecoming will be my homecoming

by e. e. cummings

your homecoming will be my homecoming-

my selves go with you, only i remain;
a shadow phantom effigy or seeming
(an almost someone always who’s noone)

a noone who, till their and your returning,
spends the forever of his loneliness
dreaming their eyes have opened to your mourning

feeling their stars have risen through your skies:

so, in how merciful love’s own name, linger
no more than selfless i can quite endure
the absence of that moment when a stranger
takes in his arms my very lifes who’s you

-when all fears hopes beliefs doubts disappear.
Everywhere and joy’s perfect wholeness we’re

Alto singer with accompaniment

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