The world premiere performance of a setting of a spiritual poem written by Boris Elkis. Haga Motettkör conducted by Ulrike Heider, Mariakyrkan, Helsingborg, June 17, 2018.

My God, My Love, in me you dwell.
Your love flows from your infinite well.
Help me remember all that I am.
Help me break through illusory dam

We don’t know all of your mysteries.
We dwell within you for all history 
I look at the faces of people I know
I know that you’re there behind of it all

The silent watcher who is never asleep
He watches and tends to all of his sheep
He knows all the secrets and holds all the keys
He craves the sweet nectar from all of his bees

He knows all the words before they are sung
He knows all the deeds before they are done
He feels our desires, our pains and regrets
He suffers and pays for all of our debts

No moment goes by when he does not try
To get us to feel his presence up high
To get us to see the beauty within
To hear his whisper pulse through our skin

My Love, My God, to you we’ll return
Your fire’s ablaze and I’m feeling it burn
My Love, My God, in you we will die 
So you can take us back to the sky

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The Silent Watcher (2017)

Composer specializing in choral and orchestral music for concert use and service. Works published by Svensk Musik,  Bo Ejeby Förlag and Santa Barbara Music Publishing. Arranger of film music for concert use (clients include Marco Beltrami, Terence Blanchard and Carter Burwell) and a soundtrack album producer with +600 albums released on the acclaimed record label MovieScore Media. Mikael is also a producer for three choirs in Göteborg, Sweden, and a singer(tenor/alto).

The Silent Watcher (2017)

Mikael Carlsson