What is the Hill?

Amanda Gorman's poem from the Inauguration is called The Hill  We Climb. 

What is the hill we climb?

Her poem says:

If we're to live up to our own time,

then victory won't lie in the blade.

But in all the bridges we've made,

that is the promise to glade,

the hill we climb.

If only we dare.

The poem begins in the shade, and with a such for light.  It describes  the country in which we live.  In the cadence of the poem we hear about the losses, the catastrophes, and the lack of justice.  She talks about the challenges we face.

And she offers hope.  Hope that we can stop sowing division and stop staring at "what lies between us, but to what lies before us." 

The hill we climb is to leave a better country for our children than the one that we inherited and the one that we have created so far.  And to climb the hill, we must put down the violence with which we confront each other, and build bridges instead.

In that way, we will find the light that always exists - in that way, we will be brave enough to be the light.

Can we do that?