Here's the last lines of a poem I wrote the day after the 2016 presidential election (and one of the last poems in my last book, ANOTHER WAY TO PLAY: Poems 1960-2017), seems to me now to bookend the final lines of Amanda Gorman's inauguration poem:
"'You / can't have up without down, / success without failure, / pleasure without pain,' and I / would add, dark days without / ones filled with light. Let us / be that light for those who will / need it now."
(C) 2018 Michael Lally
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