
08/06/2025
Ein kleines Requiem
Eliot Fisk | Music by Kurt Schwertsik
Ein kleines Requiem, Op. 97
What leaves us is at the mercy of our imagination; it takes the form that we give it.
Grief also leaves us, subsiding into wistful sadness.
Yet we are still alive; we have survived and marvel daily at our own mundane existence.
Still we know: in time we also shall depart.
We can choose neither when nor where.
Still we have tried to give our life a meaning.
Though with us this meaning will disappear.
Not all at once: an echo will remain, and then fade away!
No monument, just an echo.
Yet we know the echo belongs to the sound that is its source.
Kurt Schwertsik, 29. März 2010