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Sep 18
poem challenge: RBG
dogpoet

Notorious RBG (You are still here)

I don’t know what to say.
Rest In Peace sounds so hollow being typed on my phone’s keyboard.
You’ll never know how we mourned you
Now that you’re
Gone.
You’ll never know how it all ended;
What happens to the world now that you’re
Gone?
I wrote your life down on a piece of paper last spring
And it still slipped away.
Somehow I thought you’d still be there the day I died,
Putting on your lace collars
And dissenting.
I’m not qualified to sing your praises,
But thank you for everything you ever did.
Thank you for doing something that made us cry now that you're
Gone.
I hope maybe
You caught a glimpse of what we would do
Without you
Somehow, some way,
But the truth is
You made me realize
Just as you were leaving
How little time we have
To stay.
I don’t know what to say.
I should have thanked you while you were still here
To listen.
It shouldn’t have taken this to make me realize
The amazing, incredible power
Of our short, little lives.
I hope
I can use mine
Like you used yours.
And I keep saying you’re gone,
But really,
Maybe,
You’re still here.
Yes.
You’re still here.
Love,
Another little girl who lives in books.
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  1. Treblemaker
    Sep 18, 2020

    So beautiful.

    I write because the music of language spoke to me in books and I wanted to make a beautiful noise to answer back ~ Lee Williams.

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  1. dogpoet
    Sep 19, 2020

    Thanks!

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  1. S.Reid
    Sep 19, 2020

    Thank you for this tribute, for writing so eloquently and personally about how much we have lost with the loss of Justice Ginsburg.

    YWP Executive Director
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  1. dogpoet
    Sep 19, 2020

    Thank you so much, that means a lot to me.

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  1. flowersinherhair
    Sep 19, 2020

    What a beautiful, meaningful piece.

    Katie she/her

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  1. dogpoet
    Sep 19, 2020

    Thank you!

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  1. TreePupWriter
    Sep 19, 2020

    Wow. This is so, so beautiful, and so, so powerful, and so, so well written. Thank you so much for writing and posting this.

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  1. dogpoet
    Sep 19, 2020

    Aww, thanks! :)

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