Writing for Wellness/ 3February2021

Amanda Gorman’s “The Hill We Climb” writing prompt

10 min inspired freewrite

 

The new dawn blooms as we free it.

For there is always light. If we’re

brave enough to see it.

If only we’re brave enough to be it.

Amanda Gorman, “The Hill We Climb,” read January 20, 2021

 

Free. Be. Brave.

Brave. Brave. Brave.

The valentine that my mama and I send out every year-

The 4x6 card with fotos of

Our healthy kids (do we risk the gods’ wrath? I want

To toss salt in the evil eyes that lurk in so many

Of our corners. Protect these beloved babies of ours with

sage, charms and blue amulets)-

The holiday card that we send out every year at Valentine’s,

Came yesterday. 180 of them.

And the words I chose, to accompany the fotos of the belovedbabes,

were “we send continued courage – and its root coeur –

To us all.”

 

Courage. Coeur. Heart.

Our beating brave hearts.

Each and every one of us –

Brave to wake up every day.

Every. Day. To get out of bed, to breathe.

Some of us so much braver than the rest. The rest.

The rest.

The blankets so much heavier. The breath so much

Harder. The heart beating so much stronger.

In, out. Ventricles, atriums, arteries, veins.

Coeur. Heart. Pump.

Blood magic. Brave to keep pumping &

Pumping & pumping & breathing

& working. & choosing to wake and

Breathe again.

Amanda – your light glowed so

Bright two weeks ago, I forgot to breathe. And

Then breathed again and deep. Your brave, your light.

Lighting so many. Light so brave.

 

Casting a new dawn

Amidst such dark.

Such dark.

In hearts. In minds. In our crevasses, roots and crowns, hearts -

Hearts still beating.

Light still being.

Courage. Coeur. Brave. Dawn.

New dawn.