“Even as we mourned, we grew”

On a day for the history books, @TheAmandaGorman delivered a poem that more than met the moment. Young people like her are proof that “there is always light, if only we’re brave enough to see it; if only we’re brave enough to be it.” pic.twitter.com/mbywtvjtEH

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) January 20, 2021

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Entrepreneur and talk show host Oprah Winfrey wrote: “I’ve never been more proud to see another young woman rise!”

On Wednesday Gorman read her work “The Hill We Climb” (in German: The Hill We Climb). It is about the difficult times that the US has endured and still has to endure – but also about hope for the future.

“Even as we grieved, we grew” – “Even as we mourned, we grew,” Gorman said urgently, and: “We did not feel prepared to be the heirs of such a terrifying hour. But right in the middle we found the strength to open a new chapter, to bring hope and laughter to ourselves ».

Born in Los Angeles in 1998, Gorman was honored in 2017 by the US Library of Congress with the title “National Youth Poet Laureate”. At past inaugurations of US presidents, poets and writers such as Robert Frost or Maya Angelou have repeatedly performed works – Gorman is by far the youngest.

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