Is Not a Flower a Mystery - PolyU Choir 23rd AP - 星圖 Planisphere

HKPUSU Choir 23rd AP - 星圖 Planisphere
Is Not a Flower a Mystery
曲/Music: Rabbi Chaim Stern
詞/Lyrics: Rabbi Chaim Stern
指揮/Conductor: 郭小櫻小姐 Miss Kwok Siu Ying
Is Not a Flower A Mystery 的歌詞源自於美國禮儀學家Rabbi Chaim Stern 書籍 Day by Day 所收藏的一首詩詞。這首樂曲帶出我們對上帝的沮喪：衪怎能容許世上有不公義，有讓人痛苦的戰爭呢?這段歌詞的結尾指出了作者憂愁而矛盾的情緒:我們除了上帝外還可向誰求助呢?美國作曲家 Donald McCullough通過豐富的合唱編曲表達了主題，使得聽眾對這作品有獨一無二的解讀。
Is Not A Flower A Mystery is taken from ‘Day by Day’, written by Rabbi Chaim Stern. Is Not a Flower a Mystery brings out the frustration towards God: How could He permit these injustice in the world, the wars that leads to the suffering of the people? Towards the end of the piece points out the poignant conflicting emotions of the author: Who can we turn to for help but God? Donald McCullough expresses this theme through a rich choral texture, which allows the listeners individual interpretation of this unique piece.
Lyrics:
Is not a flower a mystery no flower can explain?
Is not God the growing, the pattern which has no end and is never quite the same?
Is not God in the heart that sees it
and weeps for beauty?
Why, then, God, this mystery:
that the bombs fall
and the sprays kill
and the flames rise
and the children go up in smoke?
Why is there still a flower to remind us of You?
Why does the sun still burn to give us life?
How do we still turn to You?
Why cannot we help but turn to You,
But why, why do we turn to you so late?
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