EFC Videos
Russell Hepplewhite/Wendy Cope: I Wake
A World Première. Exeter Festival Chorus, conducted by Andrea Brown, 5th April 2025.
The first of ten inspiring poems set to music from the collection 'Living Voices'.
I Wake. A kindly nurse looks down at me.
Your operation's over. I'm surprised-
It seemed so quick. Relief dawns gradually.
I am not dead. I am not paralysed.
At last I took the risk. The misery.
The months of indecision and of dread
Are over. Now a nurse looks down on me.
I am not paralysed. I am not dead.
Wendy Cope.
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