This piece is based off of an Eric Whitacre choral song titled “A Boy and a Girl”, which was written to a poem by Octavio Paz. The piece is such an inspiration to me, and in turn, this piece was extremely easy to make and feel happy with.
Octavio’s poem writes about a boy and a girl, who, laying in the grass give each other kisses, with oranges representing their love. As the poem continues, their oranges become limes - a more complicated flavour. Then, the couple exchange nothing. Silence for silence, as their love continues from under the ground. It’s simply my favourite poem, especially with Eric Whitacre’s choral interpretation.
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A boy and a girl
Their eyes colliding in the night
Mixing like mirrors
In reflection
A boy and a girl
Stretched to imagine the numbers and fractions
Careful contact, fantastic blackness
A boy and a girl
When love is only found above
Their star-stretched hearts
Pace the heights
A boy and a girl
Giving silence for silence
Forever under star-stretched fields
Buried kisses from below
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