a song, scored for soprano, piano & cello [2009],
by Peter Wesley-Smith (lyric) and Martin Wesley-Smith (music)

first performance: Sat 7th February 2009
Yarrawa Estate, Kangaroo Valley, NSW Australia [tel: +61 (0)2 4465 1165]

Nicole Thomson, soprano; Yevkin Varbedian, piano; Rachel Scott, cello

free downloads:
MIDI; score; piano part; cello part

eyeless in Gaza no one can see pleading for mercy on broken knee way out of vision way out of mind watch the unsighted leading the blind armless in Gaza no hands, no wrists vanished forever though there be fists standing defiant here on the brink can't join together no arms to link headless in Gaza bodies don't move nothing to plead for nothing to prove corpses in silence women and men cry out for vengeance over and over again © 2009 Peter Wesley-Smith