poetry allows an artist to
get however they're feeling their
thoughts on a piece of paper
so we all have a story to tell then
victory won't
lie in the blade but in all the bridges
we've made
angry as a siren sweeping across the
country
and i'm the boy building a man to stand
next to skyscrapers
that is the promise to glade the hill we
climb if only
we dare it amanda gorman being able to
perform
at the super bowl and do and
do this inauguration so beautifully is
going to open doors for poets
she was given the platform to really
pull people
in and witness the magic of it and i
think once you get that like
you're gonna be hooked it only gave me
hope
for not just people artists in general
i think it's a really exciting time for
poetry i've already think that like so
many young people are reaching out to me
about like
how they can get involved now go deliver
the message
you are more than all your messes all
the times you cry for suicide but second
guessed it
pray for you still here because i stayed
for you
life on the line i would lay it for you
take the pain for you
side by side ride or die gang gang for
you
pray for you i kind of write out of
frustration a lot of times
like poetry it kind of gives me a way to
respond to the world and like the things
that happen in my life
and they will never be able to repay
what they took from us to be black
is to be born a black hole but where
phoenix
can birth a dream out of what's never
been i mean this isn't the first time
we've had to do it
been a while and we're still going
through it but no
the revolution is ours to build even if
we got to do it
with our bare hands i found myself
a lot of times being like spoken over
poetry kind of gave me a way to speak up
and to feel like more empowered in my
voice
i still have pretty bad social anxiety
and
i've never been a great like talker
explainer
but sometimes when i get to write poetry
when i get to write poetry it's just
this chance to like
put down exactly what i'm feeling
i'm astronaut escaping the red and blue
lights of gravity
pulling myself up over the earth trying
to survive atmospheres much different
than my own in places
where i was told the air was too toxic
for someone like me
but i inhale it all the same you see
this
it's for all the people who forgot that
i exist but a price tag of my life
who defunded the schools in my
neighborhood left my friends to fend for
themselves
and push my family out of their homes
and try to keep me from saying something
about it
and tried to turn the page on my story
well here i am
poetry helps to move things forward if
people are really willing to listen to
what poets have to say
i feel like a lot could change often
it's about dreaming it's about what we
could be
versus like what we are right now and
young people are the best people to
ask about that for there is always light
if only we're brave enough
to see it if only we're brave enough
to be it it now gives us hope to keep
pressing
and keep moving forward you don't really
need anything except like a pen
or a paper you can write a poem in your
phone and just
seeing how more people might reach that
for that and gravitate toward that i
think
that hopefully will be the amanda gorban
effect
we don't necessarily just do the work
for other people there were no more
people on the earth
if i was all alone here i think i'd
probably still be right in polos
just for me