<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hymn For The Hurting<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">Everything hurts,</div><div class="">Our hearts shadowed and strange,</div><div class="">Minds made muddied and mute.</div><div class="">We carry tragedy, terrifying and true.</div><div class="">And yet none of it is new;</div><div class="">We knew it as home,</div><div class="">As horror,</div><div class="">As heritage.</div><div class="">Even our children</div><div class="">Cannot be children,</div><div class="">Cannot be.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Everything hurts.</div><div class="">It’s a hard time to be alive,</div><div class="">And even harder to stay that way.</div><div class="">We’re burdened to live out these days,</div><div class="">While at the same time, blessed to outlive them.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This alarm is how we know</div><div class="">We must be altered —</div><div class="">That we must differ or die,</div><div class="">That we must triumph or try.</div><div class="">Thus while hate cannot be terminated,</div><div class="">It <i class="">can</i> be transformed</div><div class="">Into a love that lets us live.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">May we not just grieve, but give:</div><div class="">May we not just ache, but act;</div><div class="">May our signed right to bear arms</div><div class="">Never blind our sight from shared harm;</div><div class="">May we choose our children over chaos.</div><div class="">May another innocent never be lost.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Maybe everything hurts,</div><div class="">Our hearts shadowed & strange.</div><div class="">But only when everything hurts</div><div class="">May everything change.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Amanda Gorman</div></div></div></div></body></html>