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# A Love Sonnet Written on the Occasion of the Death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- URL: https://www.andyposner.org/a-love-sonnet-written-on-occasion-of-the-death-of-ruth-bader-ginsburg/
- Published: 2020-09-19T17:05:58.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-15T05:03:06.000Z
- Description: I want to touch what aches in us, the light we guard to stay alive. My dear, come quick. I hear a knock; I’m afraid. Is it you? I dare to open and let hope come through.
- Author: Andy
- Tags: America on the Brink, poetry, America, fascism, love, #Migrated-1784090317409, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-15 04:39, elections

I won’t accept death delivered in prose.  
Darkness fell twice tonight; can we still know  
what’s real? Give me your hand and we'll compose  
ourselves. Do you recall, not long ago,  
when one could mourn but not despair? When pain  
made sense? I’m tired. Let us not be bound  
by Time, least of all these times, when again  
we stand upon the brink. I hear the sound  
of mourners keeping vigil in the night:  
we’re but tiny flames clinging to the wick.  
I want to touch what aches in us, the light  
we guard to stay alive. My love, come quick.  
I hear a knock; I’m afraid. Is it you?  
I dare to open and let hope come through.

*Saturday, September 19, 2020*