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Poet Kwame Alexander has created a poem from submissions about the challenges of the past year and our dreams for the future. It ends with: "For through the struggle, we may hope to become stronger."

knowing its time to feed its budding branches. Like seedlings struggling towards the light, even though I need a baptism of magic waters to cure all that aches I don my gowns and masks and gloves Tend to the sick, the lost, the tired, the dead. I say a prayer, talk to God think of things I love: Birds and flowers and books dandelions, earthworms, mosses, to love, or not enough. I rise makes me want to stay in bed Even when the outlook is bleak: Ive not seen my eighth graders smile. Or smirk. my...