She was given the platform to really pull people in and witnessed the magic of it.

And I think, What do you get that like you're gonna be hooked and only gave me hope for not just me, but artists in general.

I think it's a really exciting time for poetry.

I've already think that, like so many young people, that Russia I got to be about, like, how they can get involved.

Yeah, I go deliver the message.

You are more than all your message.

All the times you cry for suicide.

The second guessed it pray for you still here because I stayed for you life on the line I would lay it for you Take the painful you side by side, Ronald Die Gang Gang for you Pray for you, e kind of right out of frustration A lot of times like poetry, it kind of gives me a way to respond to the world and like the things that happened in my life and they will never be able to repay what they took from us to be black is to be born a black hole.

But we're Phoenix convert a dream out of what's never been.

I mean, this isn't the first time we've had to do it Been a while and we're still going through it.

But no, the revolution is ours to build even if we got to do it with our bare hands I found myself a lot of times being like spoken over poetry kind of gave me a way to speak up and to feel like more empowered in my voice.

E still have pretty bad social anxiety, and I've never been a great like talker explainer.

But sometimes when I get to write poetry and when I get to write poetry, it's just this chance toe like put down exactly what I'm feeling e.

M astronaut escaping the red and blue lights of gravity, pulling myself up over the earth, trying to vibe The atmosphere is much different than my own in places where I was told the air was too toxic for someone like me.

But I inhale it all the same.

You see this?

It's for all the people who forgot that I exist.

But the price tag of my life de funded schools in my neighborhood left my friends to fend for themselves and pushed my family out of their homes and try to keep me from saying something about it and tried to turn the page on my story.

Well, here I am.

Poetry helps to move things forward.

If people are really willing to listen to what poet has to say, I feel like a lot could change.

Often.

It's about dreaming.

It's about what we could be versus, like what we are right now.

And young people are the best people would ask about that, for there was always liked.

If Onley were brave enough to see it, if Onley were brave enough to be it and now gives us hope to keep pressing and keep moving forward.

You don't really need anything except like a pen or a paper.

You can write a poem in your phone and just seeing how more people might reach that for that and gravitate toward that, I think that hopefully will be the Amanda Gorman Effect Way.

Don't necessarily just do the work for other people.

There were no more people on the Earth.

If I was all alone here, I think I'd probably still be writing follows just for May.