For there is always light, If only we're brave enough to see it If only we're brave enough to be it" We have an opportunity now like no other ever before A year of lockdown has delivered lesson after lesson and we must learn those lessons now or risk never learning them One of the lessons we have surely learned is the need to look after ourselves better Another is that the system At the end of the the poem Amanda returns to her initial question of how to "find light" during difficult times 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 itIn one of the inauguration's most talked about moments, poet Amanda Gorman summoned images dire and triumphant Wednesday as she called out to the world "even
Amanda Gorman Inauguration Day Poem Full Transcript Los Angeles Times
