[Thespiritexpress] Justice Ruth Bander Ginsburg ~~~~ Wow~!!!

[joan burleigh]

Thank you so much for that poem. She was definitely one of my heroines!
I've been crying a lot.  That poem is really wonderful!

Love,
Joan

On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 10:16 AM Roz via Thespiritexpress <
thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:

> > Oh thank you Ron! This says it all. I am so sad about the passing of
> this heroic woman.  May peace prevail
>
> Love, Roz
>
>
>
> > Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
> > (she left us in body but not in Spirit)
> >
> > When Great Trees Fall
> >
> > When great trees fall,
> > rocks on distant hills shudder,
> > lions hunker down
> > in tall grasses,
> > and even elephants
> > lumber after safety.
> > When great trees fall
> > in forests,
> > small things recoil into silence,
> > their senses
> > eroded beyond fear.
> > When great souls die,
> > the air around us becomes
> > light, rare, sterile.
> > We breathe, briefly.
> > Our eyes, briefly,
> > see with
> > a hurtful clarity.
> > Our memory, suddenly sharpened,
> > examines,
> > gnaws on kind words
> > unsaid,
> > promised walks
> > never taken.
> > Great souls die and
> > our reality, bound to
> > them, takes leave of us.
> > Our souls,
> > dependent upon their
> > nurture,
> > now shrink, wizened.
> > Our minds, formed
> > and informed by their
> > radiance,
> > fall away.
> > We are not so much maddened
> > as reduced to the unutterable ignorance
> > of
> > dark, cold
> > caves.
> > And when great souls die,
> > after a period peace blooms,
> > slowly and always
> > irregularly. Spaces fill
> > with a kind of
> > soothing electric vibration.
> > Our senses, restored, never
> > to be the same, whisper to us.
> > They existed. They existed.
> > We can be. Be and be
> > better. For they existed.
> >
> > - Maya Angelou
> >
> >
> >
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