“The Hill We Climb,” a performance poem by Amanda Gorman
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/20/amanda-gormans-inaugural-poem-the-hill-we-climb-full-text.html
If Only
... there is always light, if only we’re brave enough to see it.
-- Amanda Gordon
If only we could eliminate pessimism
patriotism patriarchy power
that perverts justice and breaks
morality empathy and thrives on
despair if only we could punish
these pusillanimous pricks self-
appointed arbiters of fate apex
predators devouring the poor who
fill prisons with slaves stuff
ballots with poison politics if
only we could redraw the fucked up
districts and make them whole
again if only we could learn to stop
using terror to stop terror to stop
waving whiteness as a flag to force
everyone "other" to surrender if only
our bodies were our bodies and not
the new frontier waiting for manifest
destiny holy invasion if only we didn't
worship money if only the default
greeting on the street was hello
I love you instead of die die die
Suggested soundtrack: the wind through an American flag.
