This Day

The Inauguration of Barack Obama

This day

Is not just any day

It is a day of days

A day of a lifetime

An epoch making day

At a time that cries out

For new beginnings

 

This day

Is a watershed day

A day that separates

Yesterday from today

And today from tomorrow

On a mindless march of days

That needed breaking

 

This day

Is a day to be marked

As something remarkable

A day to be celebrated

As something joyful

A day to be remembered

As something historic

 

This day

Is a tribute to the past

With its sacrifices of so many

A blessing for the present

Amidst looming clouds of despair

And a vision for the future

Welcomed with an open hand

 

This day

Is not the struggle’s end

But the journey’s beginning

It is not the death of prejudice

But the life of possibility

It is not the end of nights

But the start of days

 

This day

Is not so much a forging ahead

As a long overdue catching up

With changes at last

That begin to give life

To time-honoured ideals

And flickering hopes

 

This day

Is a day of coming together

When power meets responsibility

And rhetoric meets action

It is a day of empowerment

When the voiceless are heard

And the marginal become mainstream

 

This day

Is a day of reconciliation

When the past is laid to rest

And the future is awakening

It is a day of prodigals

When the lost find their way home

And a nation rejoins the world

 

 

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