Lin-Manuel Miranda accepted the Tony Award for best original score tonight not with the freestyle rap many may have expected, but a sonnet. And not the sonnet he likely expected, either; a visibly emotional Miranda addressed the mass killings in Orlando, Florida by referring to when “senseless acts of tragedy remind us that nothing here is promised, not one day.” He began the speech by thanking his wife Vanessa, “a perfect symphony of one,” and ended with the insistence that “love is love is love is love is love. It cannot be killed or swept aside.”

My wife’s the reason anything gets done

She nudges me towards promise by degrees

She is a perfect symphony of one,

Our son is her most beautiful reprise

We chase the melodies that seem to find us

Until they’re finished songs and start to play

When senseless acts of tragedy remind us

That nothing here is promised, not one day

This show is proof that history remembers

We live through times when hate and fear seem stronger

We rise and fall and light from dying embers

Remembrances that hope and love lasts long

And love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love

Cannot be killed or swept aside,

I sing Vanessa’s symphony, Eliza tells her story

Now fill the world with music love and pride

In 2008, when Miranda won the Tony for best original score for In the Heights, he rapped another heartfelt speech, thanking his collaborators and his then-girlfriend (now wife) Vanessa and even included the line “I don’t know about God, but I believe in Chris Jackson”—the In the Heights star who would later go on to play George Washington in Hamilton.

And remember when Neil Patrick Harris closed the 2011 Tonys with a rap summing up what had happened in the previous hours?

Yes, Miranda gets credit for that too—he and Thomas Kail, director of In the Heights and Hamilton, worked backstage throughout the show to prepare it.

So just when you thought you were done being awed by Miranda’s talent, just look at what he can do on the fly—and in the face of a tragedy no one possibly could have expected.