In January, at the inauguration of America's 46th President Joe Biden, an almost unknown young woman stepped onto a high and windy plinth above the city of Washington and read to the world a poem.

As Amanda Gorman spoke, the world listened and was moved. Almost immediately, the Internet began humming and the world knew the 23-year-old poet and activist. Sometimes such things can happen - a single voice rises from obscurity to inspire us with its truth.