She Holds These Truths - L.L. Stamps

[Larry Robinson]

She Holds These Truths

Throngs of mourners gather below the
forty-four steps that ascend to a portico encircled by Corinthian columns, each of the sixteen a reminder of the beauty and dignity of this place
where Justice lies in repose before the Great Hall.

Gazing upward they see “Equal Justice Under Law” etched over the doors that open to the high court and what once was her seat, now shrouded in black her opinions in majority and dissent echoing through the lives and livelihoods of we the people.

She battled the patriarchs of bias and bigotry
with the sword of reason and the power of words to wage a quiet revolution and reform a nation
called to uphold freedom’s guarantee of
life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

They come to be near so bright a star
her light cast across the lives of
women, young and old, who know what
she has given to fight for the rights and responsibilities that liberty, not time, guarantees.

Gratitude and grief resound throughout a country dying for a more perfect union the sanctity of the Constitution in peril, perhaps lost without the notorious one
a servant of the law and her oath.

When the crowds return home and the
last candle is extinguished, the verses
of Amazing Grace withered by the wind generations to come will hear the whisper of a Justice’s voice that once set them free.

	- L.L. Stamps 
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