'New Day's Lyric'
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.