![]() “For there is always light, if only we’re brave enough to see it, if only we’re brave enough to be it.” ![]() “The new dawn blooms as we free it,” she concluded the poem. We seek harm to none and harmony for all.” We lay down our arms so we can reach out our arms to one another. We close the divide because we know to put our future first, we must first put our differences aside. “And so we lift our gaze, not to what stands between us, but what stands before us. To compose a country committed to all cultures, colors, characters and conditions of man,” Gorman said. “We are striving to forge our union with purpose. Gorman, who regularly draws from current political events in her work, spoke passionately Wednesday about the need for social change: “We learned that quiet isn’t always peace, and the norms and notions of what ‘just is’ isn’t always justice.” We, the successors of a country and a time where a skinny Black girl descended from slaves and raised by a single mother can dream of becoming President, only to find herself reciting for one,” the 22-year-old Gorman said in her poem, entitled, “The Hill We Climb.” “Somehow we’ve weathered and witnessed a nation that isn’t broken, but simply unfinished. READ: Youth poet laureate Amanda Gorman's inaugural poem ![]() (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, Pool) Patrick Semansky/Pool/AP Joe Biden became the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday. National youth poet laureate Amanda Gorman recites her inaugural poem during the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. ![]()
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