I Am

I wrote this, like "The Message of the Wind", for the Nicola Dando Choral Composition Prize. The judges didn't choose it but I still like it. The poem, written by John Clare, seems to have a few different versions of the fifth line in the first stanza. I set the one that I was given for the competition: "Like shades in love and death's oblivion lost", which rhymes with the final line of the poem;...