No one really gets to say.

沒有人真的能說。

At 22 I am the inaugural poet.

22歲的我是首屆詩人。

We've learned that quiet isn't always peace in the norms and notions of what just is isn't always just ISS on the Wednesday in which we saw the insurrection and at the Capitol, that was the day that the oh, I'm really came to life and I really put pedal to the metal.

我們已經瞭解到，安靜並不總是和平的規範和概念，什麼只是是不總是隻是ISS在週三，我們看到了叛亂和在國會大廈，那是一天，哦，我真的來到了生活，我真的把踏板的金屬。

We've seen a forest that would shatter or nation rather than share.

我們已經看到了一個森林，會粉碎或國家而不是分享。

It would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy, and this effort very nearly succeeded.

如果這意味著拖延民主，就會毀掉我們的國家，而這種努力幾乎成功了。

But while democracy can be periodically delayed, it could never be permanently defeated.

但是，雖然民主可以被週期性地拖延，但它永遠不可能被永久地打敗。

I wanted it to be a message of hope and unity, and I think that Wednesday for me really just underscored how much that was needed but to not turn a blind eye to the cracks that really need to be filled.

我希望它是一個希望和團結的資訊，我認為週三對我來說真的只是強調了這是多麼需要，但不要對真正需要填補的裂縫視而不見。

But one thing is certain.

但有一點是肯定的。

If emerge mercy with might and might with right then, love becomes our legacy in change.

如果出現慈悲與力量，力量與權利，那麼，愛就會成為我們改變的遺產。

Our Children's birthright.

我們孩子與生俱來的權利。

Poetry is a weapon.

詩歌是一種武器。

It is an instrument of social change, and poetry is one of the most political arts out there because it demands that you rupture and destabilize the language in which you're working with inherently, you are pushing against the status quo.

它是一種社會變革的工具，詩歌是最具有政治性的藝術之一，因為它要求你從本質上打破和顛覆你所使用的語言，你是在推動反對現狀。

And so for me it's always existed in that tradition of truth telling.

所以對我來說，它一直存在於那個講真話的傳統中。

For there was always light if Onley were brave enough to see it if Onley were brave enough to be in.

因為只要安利夠勇敢，總會有光亮，只要安利夠勇敢，就能看到光亮。