FULL AMANDA GORMAN POEM: “We will raise this wounded world into a wondrous one…There is always light, if only we’re brave enough to see it if only we’re brave enough to be it.” The 22-year-old is the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history: nbcnews.to/3isX8JY | NBC News

Amanda Gorman, a 22-year-old poet from Los Angeles, is the youngest person in recent memory to deliver a poem at a presidential inauguration. Gorman opened by acknowledging the reasons why hope can be challenging. "Where can we find light in this never-ending shade?" she asked. "And yet, the dawn is ours before we knew it. Somehow we do it. Somehow we weathered and witnessed a nation that isn't broken but simply unfinished." "The new dawn blooms as we free it," she said. "For there is always lig