The Hill We Climb - Amanda Gorman
The Hill We Climb (von Amanda Gorman)
When day comes we ask
ourselves,
where can we find
light in this never-ending shade?
The loss we carry,
a sea we must wade
We've braved the belly
of the beast
We've learned that
quiet isn't always peace
And the norms and
notions
of what just is
Isn’t always just-ice
And yet the dawn is
ours
before we knew it
Somehow we do it
Somehow we've
weathered and witnessed
a nation that isn’t
broken
but simply unfinished
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
And yes we are far
from polished
far from pristine
but that doesn’t mean
we are
striving to form a
union that is perfect
We are striving to
forge a union with purpose
To compose a country
committed to all cultures, colors, characters
and conditions of man
And so we lift our
gazes not to what stands between us
but what stands before
us
We close the divide
because we know, to put our future first,
we must first put our
differences aside
We lay down our arms
so we can reach out
our arms
to one another
We seek harm to none
and harmony for all
Let the globe, if
nothing else, say this is true:
That even as we
grieved, we grew
That even as we hurt,
we hoped
That even as we tired,
we tried
That we’ll forever be
tied together, victorious
Not because we will
never again know defeat
but because we will
never again sow division
Scripture tells us to
envision
that everyone shall
sit under their own vine and fig tree
And no one shall make
them afraid
If we’re to live up to
our own time
Then victory won’t lie
in the blade
But in all the bridges
we’ve made
That is the promised
glade
The hill we climb
If only we dare
It's because being
American is more than a pride we inherit,
it’s the past we step
into
and how we repair it
We’ve seen a force
that would shatter our nation
rather than share it
Would destroy our
country if it meant delaying democracy
And this effort very
nearly succeeded
But while democracy
can be periodically delayed
it can never be
permanently defeated
In this truth
in this faith we trust
For while we have our
eyes on the future
history has its eyes
on us
This is the era of
just redemption
We feared at its
inception
We did not feel
prepared to be the heirs
of such a terrifying
hour
but within it we found
the power
to author a new
chapter
To offer hope and
laughter to ourselves
So while once we
asked,
how could we possibly
prevail over catastrophe?
Now we assert
How could catastrophe
possibly prevail over us?
We will not march back
to what was
but move to what shall
be
A country that is
bruised but whole,
benevolent but bold,
fierce and free
We will not be turned
around
or interrupted by
intimidation
because we know our
inaction and inertia
will be the
inheritance of the next generation
Our blunders become
their burdens
But one thing is
certain:
If we merge mercy with
might,
and might with right,
then love becomes our
legacy
and change our
children’s birthright
So let us leave behind
a country
better than the one we
were left with
Every breath from my
bronze-pounded chest,
we will raise this
wounded world into a wondrous one
We will rise from the
gold-limbed hills of the west,
we will rise from the
windswept northeast
where our forefathers
first realized revolution
We will rise from the
lake-rimmed cities of the midwestern states,
we will rise from the
sunbaked south
We will rebuild,
reconcile and recover
In every known nook of
our nation and
every corner called
our country,
our people diverse and
beautiful will emerge,
battered and beautiful
When day comes we step
out of the shade,
aflame and unafraid
The new dawn blooms as
we free it
For there is always
light,
if only we’re brave
enough to see it
If only we’re brave
enough to be it
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