So it has come to pass
at last,
the Promised Land,
America!
Our few hundred years
to find the words,
our sure and clumsy attempts
to try, to test, to amend,
discover who and what
we are and can be.
Those thousands of past
years before us
triumph and loss and try again
and through and beneath it all
the mind and body politic
echoing those moments when
we got it right
all of us together
are the human race.
I opened the windows
after midnight
and heard the voices raised
saw the fireworks
light up the sky
before the rising sun
of Morning in America
the new and brighter day!