Abide - Dan Forrest

Live Performance by the Trinity University Chamber Singers
Gary Seighman, conductor
Dan Forrest, guest pianist
January 13, 2018
ABIDE
Forgive me if I forget with the birdsong
and the day’s last glow
folding into the hands of the trees,
forgive me the few syllables of the autumn crickets,
the year’s last firefly winking
like a penny in the shoulder’s weeds,
if I forget the hour,
if I forget the day as the evening star
pours out its whiskey over the gravel
and asphalt I’ve walked for years alone,
if I startle when you put your hand in mine,
if I wonder how long your light has taken to reach me here.
-Jake Adam York
Hinshaw Music, 2016