Rise Up, My Love 
also called “Joe’s Song”, for my husband
Listen to Rise Up My Love

What’s the true rhythm of this life that we know?
Do we break and die, do we heal and grow?
Do we ride in trust, or with both eyes closed tight,
So afraid of seeing darkness that we shut out the light?

A journey of winters, a journey of fears,
Through deserts and valleys, betrayals and tears,
Through uncertain knowledge and shattering pain,
O, Awake to the sound only Spring can name!

Open, O open , O open to me!
Like Light in the morning, like wind on the sea,
Like trees close together on the curve of the earth,
O, Open like water, open like birth!.

Sing me a song from the the well of your heart
The song that you've kept in the bottommost part
The song you've remembered each time you've been whole.
O, Sing what is written in the womb of your soul.