Time to Heal and Rebuilt : Protect Democracy

There would not have been much of crowd, pomp and show for Biden's inauguration as there is normally for such events, but there were lot of moment's to reflect, refresh, realign. 

Lot of words:

There will be days when we need a hand, there will also be days when we can lend a hand..America will lead not by example of power but by the power of example - Joe Biden

 As Barac Obama tweet:

"Today was a good day.

And it was only possible because of you. Because you made calls. Because you marched. Because you wore your masks and voted like never before.

For four years, you defended our democracy with everything you had—and now, our country can enter a new day."

On this occasion, they had released a video: 

The time to move forward is now

Time to heal,

Time to rebuild,

Time to Unite,

Time to Trust,

Time to Participate,

Time to Achieve

Time to Improve

Time to Grow

Time to Change

Time to Dream

Time to Learn

Time to Love

Time to Recover

Time to Lead

Time to Engage

Time to Listen

Time to Adapt

Time to Hope

Time to Develop

Time to Bless

Time to Encourage

Time to Create

Time to Support

Time to Innovate

Time to Reconcile

Time to Inspire

Time to Work

The Time to move forward is now. 

Amanda Gorman was just stunning with her poem " The Hill We Climb"; this is the first that I started watching, as I was in a meeting when the inauguration had begun, and I was awe stuck; as I watched the video, I kept wondering, if she is holding some position in the new office. 

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 justice.

And 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 and 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 one.

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And yes, we are far from polished, far from pristine,

but that doesn’t mean we 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, characters, and conditions of man.

And so we lift our gazes not to what stands between us, but what stands before us.

We close the divide 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 and harmony for all.

Let the globe, if nothing else, say this is true:

That even as we grieved, we grew.

That even as we hurt, we hoped.

That even as we tired, we tried.

That we’ll 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 shall sit under their own vine and fig tree and no one shall make them afraid.

If we’re to live up to our own time, then victory won’t lie in the blade, but in all the bridges we’ve made.

That is the promise to glade, the hill we climb, if only we dare.

It’s because being American is more than a pride we inherit.

It’s 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.

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 era of just redemption.

We feared it 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 once we asked, ‘How could we possibly prevail over catastrophe?’ now we assert, ‘How could catastrophe possibly prevail over us?’

We will not march back to what was, but move to what shall be:

A country that is bruised but whole, benevolent but bold, 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 mercy with might, and might with right, then love becomes our legacy and change, our children’s birthright.

So let us leave behind a country better than the one we were left.

With every breath from my bronze-pounded chest, we will raise this wounded world into a wondrous one.

We will rise from the golden hills of the west.

We will rise from the wind-swept north-east where our forefathers first realized revolution.

We will rise from the lake-rimmed cities of the midwestern states.

We will rise from the sun-baked south.

We will rebuild, reconcile, and recover.

In every known nook of our nation, in every corner called our country,

our people, diverse and beautiful, will emerge, battered and beautiful.

When day comes, we step out of the shade, aflame and unafraid.

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.

 

“We’ll never say in a month — when we’re sitting in Florida — we’re not going to be looking at each other and saying, ‘You know, if we only worked a little bit harder,’” Trump said. “You can’t work harder.”

Near the end of his speech, Trump said that he “will be watching” and “will be listening” from his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, and vowed that “we will be back in some form.”

“Have a good life,” he concluded, as the Village People’s “Y.M.C.A.” began playing over the speaker system. “We will see you soon.”

It was so nice to see Bill Clinton with his wife, Obama with his wife, and listen to the wonderful video of George W, Bush, Obama and Bill Clinton. How you exit any situation says a lot. We have always been told that our exit should be classy, and  Trump's exit yesterday say a lot about him.

Wishing the new team all the very best. May they lead by example  and be an inspiration to the world.