[gentle music]
- I thought I'd awaken to a world in mourning,
heavy clouds crowning, a society storming,
but there's something different on this golden morning,
something magical in the sunlight's wide and warming.
I see a dad with a stroller taking a job,
across the street of bright eyed girl chases her dog,
a grandma on a porch fingers her rosaries.
She grins as her young neighbor brings her groceries.
While we might feel small, separate, and all alone,
you've never been more closely tethered
because the question isn't if we can weather this unknown,
but how we will weather this unknown together.
So on this meaningful morn we mourn and we mend like lights,
we can't be broken, even when we bend.
We ignite not in the light,
but a lack thereof
for it is in loss that we truly learn to love.
In this chaos we will discover clarity,
in suffering we must find solidarity.
For it's our grief that gives us our gratitude,
shows us how to find hope if we ever lose it.
So ensure that this ache wasn't indured in vain,
do not ignore the pain,
give it purpose, use it.
Read children's books, dance alone to DJ music,
know that this distance will make our hearts grow fonder
from these ways of woes our world will emerge stronger.
We'll observe how the burdens of braved by humankind
are also the moments that make us humans kinds
let each dawn find us courageous
brought closer heating the lights before the fight is over.
When this ends, we'll smile sweetly.
Finally seeing and testing times
we became the best of beings.
[gentle music]