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@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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