Escaping (2019)

Duration: 4 minutes

Poet: Radhika Lusted

Composition Notes: Written for Dr. Matthew Carey and the Chamber Choir at the University of Alabama in Huntsville 

Program Note: “Escaping” copyright 2018 by Radhika Lusted. Text used with permission of Radhika Lusted.

Escaping
Radhika Lusted

Down down below me
A place with no hope
Where all that can find me
Is this unwinding rope

In a place filled with darkness
We’re all trapped in the pain
From the cuts in our skin
To the thoughts in our brains

But one day in life
When we all come to die
The shadows of death
Take us into the sky

To a place where we’re freed
From this life that we’ve shaped
And we’re finally given
The chance to escape