Once Sweeter

2025, 4:00 - SATB and Piano

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A forgotten memory,

Sweet mother drinking coffee,

Scattered thoughts all pulse and stutter,

Distant feelings now turned bitter.

Distant feelings once sweeter.

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Your kindness and your passion,

I wonder if you think of me,

Lost in your wide vacant eyes,

In the spirit of your youth,

Losing hope,

Just breathe,

No grief for your loss.

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Can you listen?

Listen.

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Still I long for your embrace,

Now a shadow so distorted.

Yearning, waiting, for your comfort.

As the tears fall for your memory.

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- Kayan Taraporevala, Kahan Taraporevala, Katayun Taraporevala