Maya reads and reacts to Amanda Gorman's beautiful 2021 inauguration poem 👧🏻❤️📚🔬

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hi i'm maya the science kid last week or in the last week there was the inauguration of joe biden and in it there was a poem by amanda gorman which i've watched like a thousand times and i really really like it so i decided i'm going to read it to you and here it is when day comes we ask ourselves where can we find light in this never-ending shade the loss we carry a sea we must wade we've braved the belly of the beast we've learned that quiet isn't always peace and the norms and notions of what just is isn't always just this yet the dawn is ours before we knew it somehow we do it somehow we've weathered and witnessed a nation that isn't broken but simply unfinished we the successors of a country in a time where a skinny black girl descended from slaves and raised by a single mother can dream of becoming president only to find herself reciting for what yes we are far from polished far from justine but that doesn't mean are striving to form a union that is perfect we are striving to forge our union with purpose to compose a country committed to all cultures colors and conditions of man and so we lift our gazes to what stands between us not to what stands between us but what stands before us we close the divide the died because we know to put our future first we must first put our differences aside we lay down our arms so we can reach out our arms to one another we seek harm to none in harmony for all of the globe if nothing else say this is true that even as we grieved we grew and that even as we we hurt we hoped that even as we tired we tried that we'll never that we will forever be tied together victorious not because we will never again know defeat but because we will never again sow division scripture tells us to envision that everyone should sit under their own vine and fig tree and no one should make them afraid if we are to live up to our own time then victory will lie in the blade but in all the bridges we make this is the promise to blade the hill we climb if if only we dare because being american is more than a pride we are inherent but the past we step into and how we repair it we've seen a force that would shatter our nation rather than share it would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy and this effort very nearly succeeded but while democracy can be periodically delayed it can never be permanently defeated in this truth in this faith we trust for while we have our eyes on the future history has its eyes on us this is the air of just redemption we feared at its inception we did not feel prepared to be the heirs of such a terrifying hour but within it we found the power to author a new chapter to offer hope and laughter to ourselves so while we once asked how could we possibly prevail over catastrophe now we assert how could catastrophe possibly prevail over us will not march back to what was but move to what shall be a country that is bruised but whole benevolent but bold we want fierce and free we will not be turned around or interrupted by intimidation because we know our inaction and inertia will be the inheritance of the next generation our blunders become their burdens but one thing is certain if we merge if mercy with might and might with right then love becomes our legacy and change our children's birthright so let us leave behind the country better than when we were left with every breath from my bronze pounded chest we will rise this wounded world into a wondrous one we will rise from the golden hills of the west we will rise from the one swept northeast where our forefathers first realize revolution it will rise from the lake grim cities of the midwestern states will rise from the sun baked south we will rebuild rebuild reconcile and recover and every known nook of our nation in every corner called our country our people diverse and beautiful were emerged battered and beautiful when day comes we step out of the shade a flame and not an unafraid if for there is always the new dawn blooms as we free it for there is always light if only we're brave enough to see it if only we're brave enough to be it and that's the end of the poem and i like the poem because i like the way she says it and the way she makes the way the style she uses to make her own poetry so i like that she's like like she moves around and she's like the first paragraph is like the first stanza is um when when day comes we ask ourselves where can we find light in this never-ending shade the loss we carry a sea we must wait we've braved the belly of the beast i like how she like acts she's not poet she's not reciting poetry she's acting poetry and i i think that if i think that there are some words that are hard to lots of them but some of them i realized are also the same as my dr king martin luther king i have a dream speech for mlk day and that's also in my science kid website and that's why i like it that's the end of the video i hope you enjoyed it see you next time on amaya the science kid video