That is the promise to glade, the hill we climb, if only we dare. 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. Scripture tells us to envision that everyone shall sit under their own vine and fig tree, and no one shall make them afraid. Not because we will never again know defeat, but because we will never again sow division. That we’ll forever be tied together, victorious. Let the globe, if nothing else, say this is true. 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. To compose a country committed to all cultures, colors, characters, and conditions of man.Īnd so we lift our gaze, not to what stands between us but what stands before us. We are striving to forge our union with purpose.
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.Īnd yes, we are far from polished, far from pristine, but that doesn’t mean we are striving to form a union that is perfect. Somehow we weathered and witnessed a nation that isn’t broken but simply unfinished. We’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peace, and the norms and notions of what “just is” isn’t always justice.Īnd yet the dawn is ours before we knew it.
It’s doing that in a way that is not erasing or neglecting the harsh truths I think America needs to reconcile with.”īelow, read Gorman’s poem “The Hill We Climb” in full: When day comes, we ask ourselves, where can we find light in this never-ending shade?
“But what I really aspire to do in the poem is to be able to use my words to envision a way in which our country can still come together and can still heal. “In my poem, I’m not going to in any way gloss over what we’ve seen over the past few weeks and, dare I say, the past few years,” Gorman told the New York Times ahead of the inauguration.
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