'The truth is, one nation under guns': National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman writes poem to call for an end to gun violence. - NBCBLK
Amanda Gorman speaks during Variety's Power of Women event in Beverly Hills, Calif. on Sept. 30, 2021.Claretta Bellamy
The poet Amanda Gorman used the power of words to illustrate the harsh reality of living in the U.S. amid the onslaught of mass shootings: “The truth is, one nation under guns.”on Tuesday that left at least 19 children and two teachers dead, Shortly after the shooting, the 24-year-old shared a poem on Twitter that she had written in light of the news.That plunge when we ask“What might we be if only we tried,” she wrote in another tweet that has almost 50,000 likes. “What might we become if only we’d listen.”
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