We are Light
Work Overview
Narrator and string quartet
Commissioned by the Del Sol Quartet as part of Facing the Moon: Songs of the Diaspora
Text by Genny Lim
Premiere: October 19, 2025, at Presidio Theatre in San Francisco, California.
“Keep the vision in your mind and you will find it.”
— Mau Piuilug, Micronesian Ocean Navigator, Hawaii Rising
Piece Text
Nothing but light
Before the beginning
Nothing but light
After Death
At the crossroads
Rising from thunder, lightning, clouds
Blooming out of
The depths of darkness
In rainbow, mist and fog
The lotus opens
With a hundred thousand petals
Blossoming
With a hundred thousand songs
Echoing amid laughter and tears
Come joy, come spring!
Come love!
Come as One!
We are light!
Nothing but light!
Pure light!
By Genny Lim
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