For RBG

The Lost Daughter

For the inspiration — and in memory of — Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Where are you, my Daughter?

Where is your heart, where is your mind — where is the strength of your soul striving for millennia to be released?

You gave yourself up long ago to the Powers that Be —

Thinking them stronger than you, wiser than you, more worthy of devotion or love or even power — Enough to forget who you are.