A Letter from the End of Days deals with the aftermath of climate change. What happens to us? To our homes? To our community? To our world? Are we too late? Poet Malachi Black challenges us with his poem, A Letter from the End of Days (Come in. Clean the House. We have Died.), from which the text for this setting is based. In four sections within this one continuous movement, A Letter for the End of Days speculates on the impact of our choices. The viola, representing time and earth, precedes us, and hopefully, will last beyond humankind.