[Oe List ...] Wishing that the spirit of Amanda's prophetic voice may be yours in 2022

[Judi White]

Beautfu. Thank you for the heritage we a have shared. Happy New Year. Judi
White

On Fri, Dec 31, 2021, 8:43 AM Karen Snyder via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
wrote:

> *'New Day's Lyric'*
>
> *--by Amanda Gorman
> <https://www.dailygood.org/search.php?op=auth&name=Amanda%20Gorman>, Dec
> 31, 2021*
>
> *May this be the day*
>
> *We come together.*
>
> *Mourning, we come to mend,*
>
> *Withered, we come to weather,*
>
> *Torn, we come to tend,*
>
> *Battered, we come to better.*
>
> *Tethered by this year of yearning,*
>
> *We are learning*
>
> *That though we weren't ready for this,*
>
> *We have been readied by it.*
>
> *We steadily vow that no matter*
>
> *How we are weighed down,*
>
> *We must always pave a way forward.*
>
> ***
>
> *This hope is our door, our portal.*
>
> *Even if we never get back to normal,*
>
> *Someday we can venture beyond it,*
>
> *To leave the known and take the first steps.*
>
> *So let us not return to what was normal,*
>
> *But reach toward what is next.*
>
> ***
>
> *What was cursed, we will cure.*
>
> *What was plagued, we will prove pure.*
>
> *Where we tend to argue, we will try to agree,*
>
> *Those fortunes we forswore, now the future we foresee,*
>
> *Where we weren't aware, we're now awake;*
>
> *Those moments we missed*
>
> *Are now these moments we make,*
>
> *The moments we meet,*
>
> *And our hearts, once all together beaten,*
>
> *Now all together beat.*
>
> ***
>
> *Come, look up with kindness yet,*
>
> *For even solace can be sourced from sorrow.*
>
> *We remember, not just for the sake of yesterday,*
>
> *But to take on tomorrow.*
>
> ***
>
> *We heed this old spirit,*
>
> *In a new day's lyric,*
>
> *In our hearts, we hear it:*
>
> *For auld lang syne, my dear,*
>
> *For auld lang syne.*
>
> *Be bold, sang Time this year,*
>
> *Be bold, sang Time,*
>
> *For when you honor yesterday,*
>
> *Tomorrow ye will find.*
>
> *Know what we've fought*
>
> *Need not be forgot nor for none.*
>
> *It defines us, binds us as one,*
>
> *Come over, join this day just begun.*
>
> *For wherever we come together,*
>
> *We will forever overcome.*
>
>
>
>
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