EN LA ORILLA

for Piano

Duration: 7:30 minutes

Hope and desperation: the hope of achieving a happier life; the desperate need to risk everything to make a dream come true; the most absolute and irrevocable loss of the most precious thing we have; and the impossibility of turning back. The pain that seeps into the soul of those who remain behind to appreciate what happened.

A Salvadoran man and his one year, 11 month old daughter were found on the banks of the Rio Grande on Sunday June 23, 2019. They had drowned after being swept away by the river current while trying to cross in Matamoros, Mexico. They came all the way from the Mexican State of Tamaulipas with hopes of reaching the United States. They sank at the sight of the girl’s mother, before reaching the US coast.

Dedicated to Valeria and Oscar Martínez who lost their lives trying to cross the Rio Grande, in search of a happier life.

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